One-fifth of Ukrainian territory is under Russia’s control, with Donbas “almost entirely destroyed,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said while addressing Luxembourg's lawmakers on Thursday.
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“As of today, about 20% of our territory is under the control of the occupiers, almost 125 thousand square kilometers. This is much larger than the area of all the Benelux countries combined," Zelenskyy said to the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg via video.
Zelenskyy also said fighting continues along the front line that is stretched over “more than a thousand kilometers” along the territories of Kharkiv region to Mykolaiv in the country’s south. He added, Ukraine’s Donbas region is “simply devastated,” calling it “once one of the most powerful industrial centers in Europe.”