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Why do news media have to repeat this kind of weirdness:
What kind of "territorial gains" is it that during all of year 2024 the Russia managed to gain 0.7 percent of Ukraine's total area. Less than one percent! That is in no manner significant. Taking over 0.7 of a country's land means the frontline having frozen in place, not the country gaining territory.
And of course, if we take the events in Kursk province into account, the percentage gets even lower...
Also, this article says "will conscript", while in reality it is "wants to conscript". Putin can want whatever. Being able to get what it wants is a whole different question.
Two questions.
Who is reporting the 0.7% figure you're reporting, and how is it able to be confirmed as true?
If putin wants to conscript 160k soldiers, what's stopping him?
Nobody is reporting the 0.7 %. What they're reporting is that the Russia gained about 4200 km² of Ukraine's territory in 2024. That is reported by several sources, such as this one: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/8/russia-gained-4000sq-km-of-ukraine-in-2024-how-many-soldiers-did-it-lose
Ukraine's total territory is 603 628 km², and 4200 km² of that translates to 0.7 %.
Some sources talk about just over 2000 km², which would be around 0.3 %, but the rough measurement I made on the map was around 4000 km², so I don't trust the lower number.
You can search for "how much Ukrainian territory did Russians gain in 2024", and 4200 and 2000 are numbers you will find.
This 4200 km² does not include the areas inside the Russian Federation around the city of Sudzha. There Russia lost a land area that equals about 0.2 % of Ukraine's total land area, and if you count that in, then that brings the Russian gains down to 0.5% instead of 0.7 %.