{"id":1263866,"date":"2025-07-16T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-area-of-russian-invaders-defense-structures-has-increased-to-8-000-square-kilometers-deepstate-analysts\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:14:11","slug":"the-area-of-russian-invaders-defense-structures-has-increased-to-8-000-square-kilometers-deepstate-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-area-of-russian-invaders-defense-structures-has-increased-to-8-000-square-kilometers-deepstate-analysts\/","title":{"rendered":"The area of Russian invaders&#8217; defense structures has increased to 8,000 square kilometers &#8211; DeepState analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In two years, the length of Russian engineering and fortification structures has increased by 2,000 square kilometers and amounts to over 8,000 km\u00b2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/DeepStateUA\/22180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was reported by<\/a> DeepState analysts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/DeepStateUA\/18121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">A previous DeepState study<\/a> in November 2023 recorded more than 6 thousand kilometers of Russian engineering and fortification structures.<\/p>\n<p> Analysts note that the new study took into account the Kursk, Belgorod, and Bryansk regions of the Russian Federation, which occupied a significant part of the total mileage. Fortifications that fell under the control of the occupiers were also added.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;By occupying them, the enemy is setting up fortifications for itself, often encountering poor-quality construction on our part or building additional ones,&#8221; DeepState noted.<\/p>\n<p> The number of IFS on TOT increased by:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> Donetsk &#8211; 2814 km (+51%);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Zaporizhzhia &#8211; 1991 km (+7%);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Luhansk &#8211; 1302 km (+14%);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Kherson &#8211; 483 km (+29%);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Autonomous Republic of Crimea &#8211; 278 km (+5%);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Kharkiv &#8211; 126 km (+350%).<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n\t<div class=\"shortcode-wide-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5458516577377972393.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: DeepState\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption>Photo: DeepState<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p> DeepState notes that the Russians have changed their priorities in fortification, switching from depth to positional defense as they advance.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;In many areas, the enemy has pushed our units away from the main lines of defense, or the situation simply has not changed and the LBZ passes not far from long-prepared positions, as in the south,&#8221; the analysts added.<\/p>\n<p> DeepState notes that at a critical and necessary moment for itself, the enemy made every effort to build an IFS for defense.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The most striking example is the arrangement of fortifications in connection with the preparation and announcement by us of the &#8220;summer counteroffensive,&#8221; for which the Katsaps prepared and made it a failure for us. Currently, they are focused on assault operations, where defense is now the priority for us,&#8221; the report says.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, Ukrainian Armed Forces officer Yuriy Kasyanov stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/pohana-iakist-fortyfikatsiy-pryzvela-do-vtraty-ukrainskykh-terytoriy-iak-vypravyty-krytychnu-sytuatsiiu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the poor quality of fortifications caused the loss of Ukrainian territories<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> By the way, from the journalists&#8217; investigation it became known that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/kompanii-iaki-zavyshchyly-tsiny-na-milyony-hryven-pry-budivnytstvi-fortyfikatsiy-pov-iazani-z-op-bihus-info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the companies that inflated prices by millions of hryvnias during the construction of fortifications are connected to the OP<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two years, the length of Russian engineering and fortification structures has increased by 2,000 square kilometers and amounts to over 8,000 km\u00b2. This was reported by DeepState analysts. A previous DeepState study in November 2023 recorded more than 6 thousand kilometers of Russian engineering and fortification structures. Analysts note that the new study took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1124872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76873,76874,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1263866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-war","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1124872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}