With the help of some volunteer labor, we have produced a more precise set of front-line traces. I have done a couple of quick and dirty estimates before, but I never took the time to measuring it up right. Now we have done something a little more exacting. The google maps with the borders that we used is here: Google Earth. Clicking on the left hand menu will allow one to see how the border was measured. This was the work of Jack Flairty.
1. Length of the front line on 1 January 2014: This is land border with Russia.
- 1,974 kilometers
- 1,227 miles
2. Length of the front line 2016-2021: The border of the LPR and DPR and Ukraine.
- 336 kilometers
- 227 miles
3. Length of the front line 24 February 2022: This includes 1) part of the border with Belarus that is used by Russia, 2) part of the border with Russia from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy to Kharkiv, 3) the border of the LPR and DPR, 4) the border with Crimea.
- 1,706 kilometers
- 1,060 miles
4. Length of the front line 1 March 2022: This includes 1) part of the border with Belarus that is used by Russia (they did expand it), 2) the front line trace from Kyiv to Chernihiv, to Sumy, to Kharkhiv down to Izyum, 3) the front line trace down to Mariupol. 4) the front line trace through Zaporizhzhia and Kherson province.
- 3,011 kilometers
- 1,871 miles
5. Length of the front line 1 April 2022.
- 2,333 kilometers
- 1,450 miles
6. Length of the front line 1 May 2022: This no longer includes Belarus.
- 2,144 kilometers
- 1,332 miles
7. Length of the front line 1 June 2022
- 2,418 kilometers
- 1,503 miles
8. Length of the front line 1 July 2022
- 1,900 kilometers
- 1,180 miles
9. Length of the front line 1 August 2022
- 1,753 kilometers
- 1,089 miles
10. Length of the front line on 1 June 2024.
- 1,633 kilometers
- 1,015 miles
Previous posts on the subject:
The front is really not 1,200 kilometers long – rev. 1 – The Dupuy Institute