Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday that Russian forces now control roughly one-fifth of his country as fighting rages on for nearly the hundredth day.
Zelenskyy told Luxembourg’s legislature that Russian troops have entered “3,620 settlements in Ukraine” of which 1,017 of them have already been liberated and another 2,603 are to be released.
“As of today, about 20 percent of our territory is under the control of the occupiers,” Zelenskyy said. “Almost 125 thousand square kilometers. This is much larger than the area of all the Benelux Countries combined. About 300 thousand square kilometers are bestrewn with mines and unexploded ordnance. Almost 12 million Ukrainians have become internally displaced persons. More than 5 million, mostly women and children, have gone abroad.”…