{"id":1386110,"date":"2026-06-11T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1386110"},"modified":"2026-06-10T12:42:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:42:57","slug":"russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Advance Rate in Ukraine Has Fallen 50-Fold Compared to Last Year, Expert Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pace of Russian territorial gains in Ukraine has decreased fiftyfold compared to last year\u2014from about 700 square kilometers per month to just 14 square kilometers in May 2026, according to military expert and reserve colonel Serhii Hrabskyi.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Ukrainian Radio, as reported by UATV English<\/a>, Hrabskyi noted that despite Russia\u2019s numerical superiority, its forces have failed to maintain significant momentum on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuantitatively, the enemy has more forces and should be demonstrating a high rate of advance. But that is not happening. The effectiveness of Russian troops is declining rapidly. Eleven months ago, the enemy was advancing at a rate of 700 square kilometers per month. Based on the results of May 2026, that advance amounted to 14 square kilometers. Even that figure is conditional, as it is offset by our counterattacks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to Hrabskyi, the Russian military machine is \u201cseriously bogged down on Ukrainian land and in Ukrainian skies.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that Ukraine remains in a strategic defensive posture but is maintaining parity through the intensive use of long-range drone strikes against targets inside Russia.<\/p>\n

Commenting on reports that Ukrainian forces had established fire control over the area of Donetsk International Airport, Hrabskyi said this could significantly reduce Russia\u2019s ability to use the facility as a launch site for Shahed-type attack drones.<\/p>\n

At the same time, he cautioned that it is still too early to speak about fully severing the land corridor to Crimea. Current Ukrainian strikes on transportation routes remain selective rather than continuous.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are now carrying out segmentation and isolation of specific sectors. We cannot yet keep drones permanently over the occupied territory. The next stage will be the creation of isolated zones. Destroying a grouped target is far more effective than chasing individual vehicles across the steppe,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In Hrabskyi\u2019s view, meaningful progress toward ending the war will only come once Ukraine regains control of Crimea. He argued that sustained attacks on logistics networks could eventually make Russia\u2019s hold on the peninsula operationally unsustainable, leaving Russian forces vulnerable to defeat or surrender.<\/p>\n

The expert also described the likelihood of Russia using nuclear weapons in response to losing Crimea as low. He argued that Russia has never conducted modern combat testing of its nuclear arsenal and noted that Western reactions to repeated Kremlin nuclear threats have become \u201cvirtually nonexistent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regarding Ukraine\u2019s ballistic missile program, Hrabskyi said development is proceeding from the ground up and remains in the field-testing stage, making routine battlefield deployment premature at this point.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Ukraine\u2019s Special Operations Forces of Ukraine reported establishing aerial control over part of the Russian land corridor to occupied Crimea along the Melitopol\u2013Chonhar route.<\/p>\n

Read also:<\/strong> If Ukraine uses 600 drones and missiles every day, Russians will feel this war, \u2014 Zelenskyy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pace of Russian territorial gains in Ukraine has decreased fiftyfold compared …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1343390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36415,53,55,50],"tags":[76,78,72923],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1386110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en","category-russia-en","category-ukraine-en","category-svit-en","tag-glavnoe-en","tag-homepage-en","tag-frontline-update"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRussian Advance Rate in Ukraine Has Fallen 50-Fold Compared to Last Year, Expert Says - Freedom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russian Advance Rate in Ukraine Has Fallen 50-Fold Compared to Last Year, Expert Says - Freedom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The pace of Russian territorial gains in Ukraine has decreased fiftyfold compared ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Freedom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-06-11T16:54:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/destroyed_vehicle_1300x750-820x473.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"820\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"473\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Danylo Shportilo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Danylo Shportilo\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Danylo Shportilo\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/f4fe8d6d08deebcdee69f6671576d2d2\"},\"headline\":\"Russian Advance Rate in Ukraine Has Fallen 50-Fold Compared to Last Year, Expert Says\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-11T16:54:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/\"},\"wordCount\":474,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/destroyed_vehicle_1300x750.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"\u0413\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0435\",\"\u041d\u0430 \u0433\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u0443\u044e (\u0441\u043b\u0430\u0439\u0434\u0435\u0440)\",\"Frontline update\"],\"articleSection\":[\"\u041d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438\",\"News\",\"Politics\",\"Russia\",\"Ukraine\",\"World\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/\",\"name\":\"Russian Advance Rate in Ukraine Has Fallen 50-Fold Compared to Last Year, Expert Says - Freedom\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/destroyed_vehicle_1300x750.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-11T16:54:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/f4fe8d6d08deebcdee69f6671576d2d2\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/destroyed_vehicle_1300x750.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/destroyed_vehicle_1300x750.jpg\",\"width\":1300,\"height\":750,\"caption\":\"Destroyed equipment of the Russian occupiers. Photo: Facebook\/72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade named after the Black Zaporozhians\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Russian Advance Rate in Ukraine Has Fallen 50-Fold Compared to Last Year, Expert Says\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Freedom\",\"description\":\"UATV - UA|TV - International Broadcasting Multimedia Platform of Ukraine\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/f4fe8d6d08deebcdee69f6671576d2d2\",\"name\":\"Danylo Shportilo\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dfea04f04995a5257694c4ef7149b332b4103ac47f1c95f912cddd7a1e2ef4e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dfea04f04995a5257694c4ef7149b332b4103ac47f1c95f912cddd7a1e2ef4e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dfea04f04995a5257694c4ef7149b332b4103ac47f1c95f912cddd7a1e2ef4e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Danylo Shportilo\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/author\/d-shportilo\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Russian Advance Rate in Ukraine Has Fallen 50-Fold Compared to Last Year, Expert Says - Freedom","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Russian Advance Rate in Ukraine Has Fallen 50-Fold Compared to Last Year, Expert Says - Freedom","og_description":"The pace of Russian territorial gains in Ukraine has decreased fiftyfold compared ...","og_url":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/","og_site_name":"Freedom","article_published_time":"2026-06-11T16:54:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":820,"height":473,"url":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/destroyed_vehicle_1300x750-820x473.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Danylo Shportilo","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Danylo Shportilo","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/"},"author":{"name":"Danylo Shportilo","@id":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/f4fe8d6d08deebcdee69f6671576d2d2"},"headline":"Russian Advance Rate in Ukraine Has Fallen 50-Fold Compared to Last Year, Expert Says","datePublished":"2026-06-11T16:54:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/"},"wordCount":474,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/destroyed_vehicle_1300x750.jpg","keywords":["\u0413\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0435","\u041d\u0430 \u0433\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u0443\u044e (\u0441\u043b\u0430\u0439\u0434\u0435\u0440)","Frontline update"],"articleSection":["\u041d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438","News","Politics","Russia","Ukraine","World"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/","url":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/","name":"Russian Advance Rate in Ukraine Has Fallen 50-Fold Compared to Last Year, Expert Says - Freedom","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/destroyed_vehicle_1300x750.jpg","datePublished":"2026-06-11T16:54:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/f4fe8d6d08deebcdee69f6671576d2d2"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/destroyed_vehicle_1300x750.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/destroyed_vehicle_1300x750.jpg","width":1300,"height":750,"caption":"Destroyed equipment of the Russian occupiers. Photo: Facebook\/72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade named after the Black Zaporozhians"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-advance-rate-in-ukraine-has-fallen-50-fold-compared-to-last-year-expert-says\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Russian Advance Rate in Ukraine Has Fallen 50-Fold Compared to Last Year, Expert Says"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/","name":"Freedom","description":"UATV - UA|TV - International Broadcasting Multimedia Platform of Ukraine","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/f4fe8d6d08deebcdee69f6671576d2d2","name":"Danylo Shportilo","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dfea04f04995a5257694c4ef7149b332b4103ac47f1c95f912cddd7a1e2ef4e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dfea04f04995a5257694c4ef7149b332b4103ac47f1c95f912cddd7a1e2ef4e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dfea04f04995a5257694c4ef7149b332b4103ac47f1c95f912cddd7a1e2ef4e7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Danylo Shportilo"},"url":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/author\/d-shportilo\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386115,"href":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386110\/revisions\/1386115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1343390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386110"},{"taxonomy":"sources","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sources?post=1386110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}