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Apr 23 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Our latest control of terrain maps for Russia's invasion of Ukraine for @TheStudyofWar.

Some notes on today's changes below:
@TheStudyofWar 1. We recoded Lozova, Kharkiv Oblast, from Russian assessed advance to Russian control after Advisor to the Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office Oleksiy Arestovych said that Russian forces control the settlement on April 23.
2. We recoded one street in Rubizhne, Luhansk Oblast, from Russian claimed control to Russian assessed advance after a social media video showing Russian forces was geolocated to that area on April 20.
3. We extended three Russian assessed advances northeast of Azovstal based on geolocated images of Russian forces there on April 22-23.
4. We recoded Russian claimed control over Novobakhmutivka, Donetsk Oblast, to Russian assessed advance after the Ukrainian General Staff stated on April 23 that 200 Wagner militants are conducting reconnaissance in the area.

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Apr 22
Our latest maps on Russia's invasion of Ukraine for @TheStudyofWar. Some notes on their development.

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Apr 19
Our latest maps of Russia's invasion of Ukraine for @TheStudyofWar.

Some notes on their development.

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Apr 19
Our latest battle maps for the @TheStudyofWar. Some notes on today's updates.

1. Today’s shapefiles do not include updates on the reported Russian offensive in Donbas because the collection cutoff for today’s shapefiles is 3:00 pm EST.
We will update our shapefiles to capture verified information accordingly on April 19.

2. We recoded Kreminna from Ukrainian counteroffensives to Russian advances after Luhansk Governor Serhei Haidai stated that Russian forces took control of Kreminna on April 18.
3. Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Synyehubov stated on April 17 that Ukrainian forces advanced east during counteroffensive operations east of Mala Rohan. ISW will map this counteroffensive when we collect enough concrete information to do so.
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Apr 17
Our team's latest maps tracking Russia's invasion of Ukraine for @TheStudyofWar.

Some notes on the recent updates:

1. We refined assessed Russian advances and claims in and around Popasna based off observing new imagery of Ukrainian positions & seeing a new map from RIA FAN...
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Apr 9
Our latest maps for @TheStudyofWar. We retired the Kyiv map and introduced a map focusing on the Kherson-Mykolaiv front.

Some developer notes in a thread below.
We recessed assessed Russian control in Kharkiv near Vilkhivka and recoded it as Russian advances given evidence of Russian tanks retreating from Kutuzivka and Prelesne on April 8 following Ukrainian counteroffensives in Vilkhivka.
We further refined assessed advance near Izyum based on observing new satellite imagery of Russian forces in the area.
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Apr 6
Some notes on our latest control of terrain maps in Ukraine.

We recoded all of Sumy Oblast from Russian assessed advances to Ukrainian claimed counteroffensives after Sumy Oblast Governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyi stated on April 6 that Ukrainian forces liberated Sumy Oblast.

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Zhyvytskyi stated that Sumy Oblast territory is completely cleared, “including fields and forests.” He stated that Ukrainian forces were still clearing Sumy Oblast as of the evening of April 3 but that as of April 4 Ukrainian forces had finished clearing Sumy Oblast.

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We recoded Russian assessed advance in Osokotkivka, Dobryanka, and Trudolyubivka in north Kherson Oblast to Ukrainian counteroffensives based on Ukrainian General Staff claims from April 6 that Ukrainian forces recaptured those areas.

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