Russia Ukraine war, page-229726

You know what google is? That is surprising considering the stuff you post.

Russia occupies approx 18% of Ukraine. If Zelensky said 26% at present, then he is wrong.


Before 2022, Russia occupied 42,000 km² (16,000 sq mi) of Ukrainian territory (Crimea, and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk), and occupied an additional 119,000 km² (46,000 sq mi) after its full-scale invasion by March 2022, a total of 161,000 km² (62,000 sq mi) or almost 27% of Ukraine's territory.^[7] By 11 November 2022, the Institute for the Study of War calculated that Ukrainian forces had liberated an area of 74,443 km² (28,743 sq mi) from Russian occupation,^[8] leaving Russia with control of about 18% of Ukraine's territory.^[9] During the entire 2023, the Russian forces only captured 518 km² (200 sq mi) of Ukrainian territory, despite huge losses on the battlefield.^{[10]
Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine - Wikipedia}