18% ?
It is too ridiculous to be funny.
All places that appear east of the Dnieper River on the map and are light colored (except yellow) are Russian military operations areas. The fact that Russians allow Ukrainian people to live in this region does not indicate that these places are under Ukraine's control.
There is talk in the Middle Eastern media whether the Russians will be able to finish off Ukraine this summer. You westerners still think there is a balanced war with Russia. This is similar to the attitude of the German people, who thought they had won the war until they saw Russian tanks in Berlin. I pity for you westerners.
But those areas aren't 50% of Ukraine. They're 18%. Please go do your own math on area.
Also, its been a long war. If Russia could finish it off by summer, they would have finished it long ago.
Also, German people knew they were losing for a while.
But hey, lets see where this is in the fall.
Ok, lets clarify this.
This is the shape that appears on the map. It was divided into east and west of the Dnieper river. This is also proportional to the location of military units' deployment (front line).
Trapeziums owned by Ukraine (approximate size): [1.00 ; 0.77 ; 0.90 ; 0.79 ;h=0.78] + [0.98 , 0.49 , 0.81 , 0.77 h= 0.63] = 0.6903 + 0.4632 =
Area (unitsquare): 1.1535 (%65, calculated below)
Trapeziums owned by Russia (approximate size): [1.33 ; 0.54 ; 1.32 ; 0.50 ; h=0.52] + [0.61 ; 0.31 ; 0.66 ; 0.29 ; h=0.30] = 0.4862 + 0.138
Area (unitsquare): 0,6242 (%35)
Calculated: 1.1535 / (1.1535+ 0,6242) = %35 to 65%
18% to 35 = 35-18= 17% mistake
50% to 35 = 50-35= 15% mistake.Rational mistake:
My mistake: 50-35/35 = 43%
Your mistake: 35-18/18 = 94%As we can see, the actual area of 35% is closer to my estimate of 50% than your estimate of 18%. In this case, it would not be wrong to say that Russia owns half of Ukraine; considering owns its 18 percent.