Ten Months of War to Gain 46 Square Miles: How Russia Is Failing on the Battlefield
Ukrainian forces have foiled Moscow’s offensive in the Donetsk region. The Russian army is making one more push Donetsk Oblast Ukraine image from [JB: not from below article] By Ian Lovett , Ievgeniia Sivorka and Andrew Barnett Nov. 6, 2026 11:00 pm ET The Wall Street Journal Ukrainian front line FRONT LINE AREAS Russia Kharkiv Kupiansk UKRAINIAN GAINS SINCE SEPT. 1 RUSSIAN FORCES Ukraine Lyman Sloviansk Luhansk Dobropillia RUSSIAN GAINS SINCE SEPT. 1 Dnipro Pokrovsk Donetsk Zaporizhzhia 50 miles 50 km Note: Data as of Nov. 1 Source: Institute for the Study of War Russia entered the fifth year of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine with a clear objective: Seize the cities in the eastern Donetsk region that remained under Kyiv’s control. But 2026 hasn’t gone according to plan for Moscow. Through the end of October, its forces have gained just 46 square miles of territory in Ukraine , compared with 1,874 square miles in 2025, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a thin...