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Benjamin Lynch

How Vladimir Putin's troops lost 2,000 square km to Ukraine forces and what happens next

Ukraine's forces have made a stunning advance in a rapid counteroffensive in the war with Vladimir Putin's Russia.

The country's President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the "entire Donetsk region will be liberated" and that "about 2,000 kilometres of our territory have already been liberated" in just 48 hours, around 770 square miles in the Kharkiv region.

Think-tank the Institute for the Study of War believe the actual area recovered could be around 965 square miles, an area roughly the size of Northamptonshire or Dorset.

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