Russian forces captured 245 square kilometers (95 square miles) of Ukrainian territory in January – roughly half the area seized in December or November last year, according to the open-source battlefield monitoring project DeepState.
The pace of Russia’s offensive slowed compared to late 2025, and overall attack activity fell by 4%, making January a relatively calmer month, Deep State’s Monday, Feb. 1 post shows.
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Most Russian attacks were concentrated in eastern and southern Ukraine, particularly around Pokrovsk and Hulyaipole. Attacks in Hulyaipole increased sharply compared to the previous month.
In the Sloviansk area, Russian forces carried out only a few attacks, but these accounted for nearly 20% of the territory Russia captured in January, DeepState reported.
Russia’s Ukraine offensive pace
Russia’s army is advancing in Ukraine at the slowest pace seen in more than a century of modern warfare, according to a recent report by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
The report says Moscow is paying an extraordinary price for minimal territorial gains, while sliding into long-term military and economic decline.
Since February 2022, Russian forces have suffered nearly 1.2 million casualties, including up to 325,000 killed – losses unmatched by any major power in any conflict since World War II, according to CSIS estimates.
Russian forces have advanced just 15 to 70 meters (49 to 230 feet) per day in their main offensives since early 2024 – slower than some of the bloodiest campaigns of World War I, the report found.
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