Ukrainian forces have lost almost half of the territory of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic they occupied six months ago, the Russian president has said The Russian military has liberated around 40% of the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) occupied by Kiev over the past six months, leaving Ukrainian forces in control of roughly 15–17% of the region, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. Kiev's troops were forced to retreat from large swathes of the territory in the face of