Through the fog of war the current situation is more or less like that:
The yellow area is territory formerly controlled to a large degree by the (Pro)Russians. The liberated areas of the two oblasts are generally less densly populated then the remaining one, although it is quite likey that at least 200.000 have left it.
With the considerable difficulties to find willing soldiers among the roughly 2 million people living still in (Pro)Russian areas and the Ukrainian successes the great influx of Russian men and Russian weapons becomes quite understandable from a purly military point of view. The Ukrainian government can still directly recruit, with obvious difficulties of course, men and women out of an area with 40 millions people.
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