evidence: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Ukrainians have "already taken back about 50%" of the territory Russia seized since the invasion as the embattled country continues its counteroffensive. [...] "They’ve already lost," Blinken said in an interview that aired on Sunday. "The objective was to erase Ukraine from the map, to eliminate its independence, its sovereignty, to subsume it into Russia." [...] "It’s already taken back about 50% of what was initially seized," he said. "Now they’re in a very hard fight to take back, to take back more. These are still relatively early days of the counteroffensive."