RUSSIAN troops have occupied 20 per cent of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced today ahead of the invasion’s 100th day tomorrow.

Addressing the Luxembourg parliament by video link, he said Russia holds around 50,000 square miles of territory, an area roughly the size of England. 

The figure includes Crimea, which voted to unite with Russia after being annexed in 2014, and the Donetsk and Lugansk “people’s republics” that have been outside Kiev’s control since that year as well as areas attacked since.