War in Ukraine Now Longer than WWI: Russia's Full Scale Invasion Reached 1,569 Days
Military analysts say drones have made the front more lethal and slowed advances to about 75 yards a day, according to a think tank analysis.
- Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has officially surpassed the duration of World War I, lasting longer than the four years, three months, and 14 days of the First World War.
- Fighting in Ukraine has settled into a grueling war of attrition, with soldiers from both sides operating from thousands of kilometers of trenches and bunkers echoing the static lines of 1914–1918.
- Admiral Pierre Vandier, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation in Nato, noted that drones have made the Ukrainian battlefield lethal at levels comparable to World War I, forcing soldiers deep underground.
- Large-Scale troop assaults of the kind seen a century ago have become impossible, replaced by attacks by just one or two soldiers in a miles-wide contested "kill zone" scattered with dugouts.
- Historian Yaroslav Hrytsak says the conflict will likely rank among the most consequential in modern European history, transforming geopolitics by reshaping military alliances and driving a major defense build-up.
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In early 2026, specifically on the night of January 11, Russia's war in Ukraine surpassed the duration of the Great Patriotic War, the term given by the Soviet Union to the war against Nazi Germany during World War II, which lasted from June 22, 1941, to May 9, 1945. In total, it lasted 1,418 days. And this Thursday, it broke another grim record: reaching 1,569 days, or more than four years and three months, thus surpassing the duration of World…
Russia's war against Ukraine has become bogged down in a war of positions, with drones monitoring a zone several kilometers wide and soldiers digging themselves into small cover holes.
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