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Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief: Ukraine has taken back forty percent of its occupied territories since February
Kyiv – Ukraine has recaptured 40 percent of the territories occupied by Russia since February last year – Valery Zaluzhny, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, summarized the battlefield results achieved in 2022 on the Telegram messaging application on Monday.
The commander-in-chief said that during 2022, the Ukrainian armed forces killed more than 100,000 Russian soldiers, and destroyed almost 42,000 Russian explosive devices, tens of thousands of Russian military equipment and almost 1,900 enemy air targets. “The year 2022 changed us, our present and our future forever,” he wrote, emphasizing that Ukraine and the Ukrainian army wrote “world history” in the past year. He also mentioned that the army has so far liberated 28 percent of all Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia.
According to Zaluzhnyi, Ukrainian armed training is currently taking place in 17 European countries, and more than 20,000 soldiers have been trained in partner states. In 2022, more than 600,000 people were evacuated from war-torn areas, and more than 2 million tons of humanitarian supplies were sent to the liberated areas, he explained.
The Commander-in-Chief pointed out that Ukraine received weapons, ammunition and financial support from partner countries, and more than a thousand wounded soldiers underwent medical treatment and rehabilitation abroad.
Ukrainian demining specialists destroyed almost 42 thousand dangerous objects across the country. About 29,000 soldiers received state awards, 160 of them received the title of Hero of Ukraine, wrote Zaluzhny. “Every day, the Ukrainian armed forces fight not only for Ukraine, but also for Europe, which is close to us in spirit, for the preservation of peace, security and freedom in the whole world. We will surely win,” the commander-in-chief stated.