Ukraine reclaims more territory than it lost in May, reversing year-long trend

The article references casualty figures as a strategic metric but does not specify total casualties or direct human impact beyond military losses.

For the first time since late 2023, Ukraine ended a month having reclaimed more land than it surrendered — a quiet but consequential turning of the tide in a war defined by incremental loss. General Sirski's confirmation that May yielded a net gain of roughly 100 square kilometers is less a triumph of conquest than a signal that the arithmetic of attrition may finally be shifting. Where Russia once swallowed hundreds of kilometers a month, it now struggles to hold single digits — and Ukraine has begun to measure victory not in maps redrawn, but in the unsustainable cost it imposes on every met

Ukraine reclaims more territory than it lost in May, reversing year-long trend

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