I have 303 hours in Italian and will be at Advanced 2 very soon, likely within the next 2 months. I began learning in November 2025. I have a detailed breakdown of exactly how long it has taken me and what I read to get to each level in another thread: https://forum.lingq.com/t/intermediate-1-in-italian-in-32-days/
I have also started Ukrainian. However Ukrainian is harder for multiple reasons, one of those being the LingQ dictionary / AI translations are a lot worse for Ukrainian than for Italian, which causes general comprehension issues. The other being there is less familiar content in Ukrainian to start out reading with, so you are battling both an unknown language and an unknown story. The third being there are far more cognates in English - Italian than in Ukrainian - Italian.