Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv says frontline position ‘strongest in a year’ as Zelensky calls for new talks
Ukraine says its frontline position is now the strongest it has been in a year, a development it attributed to its superiority in drone warfare and air defence.
A new analysis of data from the Institute for the Study of War said that Russia made almost no territorial gains across the frontline in March, the first time Moscow has made such little progress in two and a half years.
“We have minimised the Russians’ advantage in manpower through the use of drones,” Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said.
“For us, the situation on the battlefield is about strengthening our negotiating position. We can shoot down up to 90 per cent of the targets that strike our cities… [Ukraine’s] position on the battlefield is indeed the strongest, or the most solid, it has been over the past year.”
This comes as Volodymyr Zelensky renewed calls for trilateral peace discussions with Russia despite US negotiators being preoccupied by the war in Iran.
The Kremlin has rebuffed the call for fresh talks between leaders, saying Vladimir Putin will only sit down with Zelensky to finalise an agreed peace deal.
