Brigadier General Oleksii Hromov, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Division of the Normal Employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, mentioned this in an exceptional remark to Ukrinform.

“The Armed Forces of Ukraine and other aspects of the protection forces liberated 40% of the territory occupied soon after February 24. The liberation of the suitable-lender Kherson region introduced the total location of de-occupied territories to just about 40,000 square kilometers. This autumn by itself, 12,000 square kilometers ended up liberated and about 500 settlements have been recaptured in the course of an offensive operation in the Kharkiv location, and about 6,000 square kilometers were liberated and far more than 200 settlements ended up retaken for the duration of an offensive operation in the Kherson route,” Hromov claimed.

He also extra that 14,000 sq. kilometers had been liberated in the Chernihiv and Sumy areas and 7,000 square kilometers in the northern Kyiv location.

The brigadier common recalled that with a strong offensive group of Russian troops, which experienced been setting up up for quite a few months, the enemy only managed to partially attain the target in the Donetsk operational area – to quickly deprive Ukraine of access to the Sea of Azov and to produce a land corridor to the quickly occupied Crimea. At the similar time, the achievement of air superiority remained only a declaration of the enemy, Hromov said.

When questioned about the probable of the Russian army in February, when Russia invaded the Ukraine, Hromov explained: “As of February 23, 2022, the enemy’s offensive group involved far more than 127,000 servicemen, just about 1,800 tanks, 4,900 armored combat autos, far more than 1,800 artillery systems, and 830 numerous start rocket systems. In the 400-km zone in close proximity to the point out border of Ukraine, there were about 440 battle plane and much more than 500 helicopters of the Russian Air Pressure, 11 tactical groups of missile brigades (44 start devices) of Iskander operational-tactical missiles. In the overcome composition of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, reinforced by landing and artillery boats of the Caspian Flotilla of the Southern Army District and the Baltic Fleet, there ended up 28 assault ships (boats) and six attack submarines.”