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May 23 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
Putin's War -- The Ukraine Map Briefing for May 23rd.
- Today Russian forces have launched a multi-pronged assault on the town of Lyman. It is the last major UA-controlled town on the far side of the Donets River. The progress is unclear.
- Russian forces entered Mironivskyi.
I have also updated the frontlines around Popasna, largely based on @Militarylandnet's work, with some changes based on geolocated footage.
And the full-Ukraine map.

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May 24
Putin's War -- The Daily Map Briefing for May 24th.
- Russia was able to break through the Ukrainian line at two axes around Popasna, one towards Yakolivka, cutting the Bakhmut-Lysychansk highway, one from Svitlodarsk.
- Russian troops entered Lyman and control part of the town. ImageImage
Ukrainian officials announced the recapture of 24 settlements in Kharkiv oblast as part of a counter-attack against Russian forces. This cannot be mapped yet as there is no detail regarding which villages, or visual confirmation. Image
Russian gains in the past week or so from Popasna are significant and will likely force Ukraine to recommit forces and withdraw from several areas to prevent potential encirclement. I also expect an assault on either Soledar or Bakhmut itself in the coming weeks...
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May 24
These are mugshots of four underaged Children arbitrarily detained in Xinjiang. They are some of the 23k listed detainees from a newly leaked police database, from just one Xinjiang county of 300,000 people.
Rahile Omer
Memetreshit Memettursun
Abdusemi Abduweli
Zeytunigul Ablehet ImageImageImageImage
Zeytunigul Ablehet was detained because when she was 12 she was in a household where an 'illegal sermon' was played. Other children were detained because their houses had halal items, because they studied Islamic scriptures at home or because their family had 'unstable thoughts'.
You can look into the eyes of nearly 3,000 detained mugshots that were part of this leaked database.
xinjiangpolicefiles.org/images-of-deta…
All-in-all, around 1 in 8 Uyghurs in Konasheher county were detained as part of a brutal crackdown unprecedented in the 21st century. Image
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May 24
Here is another example of one of Beijing's propagandists lying through his teeth about Xinjiang. This time it's FAR easier to prove.
The incarceration rate in Konasheher county is 3,789 per 100k.
Almost 4x as much as the highest US state (Louisiana at 980). Image
And it is such a lazy lie. To see that it's wrong, you just need to do a google search of incarceration rates in US states. For Jerry to so comfortably and completely lie about something that is so easily disproven shows how comfortable propagandists are in lying about Xinjiang.
The gall of Jerry, a man who built his career on spreading misinformation after going on a 10-day holiday to Xinjiang, to accuse journalists of needing to do "a little more research" while tweeting out inaccurate/misleading figures that could literally be googled is staggering.
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May 22
Putin's War -- The Ukraine Briefing Map for May 23rd.
Relatively quiet weekend, with few gains.
- Continued but slower gains by Russian forces around Popasna (more below).
- Novoselivka captured by Russians, near Lyman
- Russian troops entered Oskil following Ukraine withdrawal.
The situation in Popasna is particularly difficult to assess. For days Russian sources have claimed quite significant gains, with several villages reported captured. However, we have no visual evidence of these claims so far in any village except Komyshuvakha.
It has been cloudy for the past few days, meaning satellite imagery analysis is not helpful, neither is fire hotspot detection.
Independent reporting is quoting UA forces in saying that Russia is around 5km from the outskirts of Soledar, meaning near Volodymyrivka.
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May 20
Putin's War -- The Ukraine Map briefing for May 20th.
- Russian forces have made significant advances near Popasna.
- Russia has recaptured the border town of Ternova, along with Rubihzne.
- Ukraine has established a bridgehead across the Donets river on the Vovchansk axis.
A full-Ukraine view.
Also some important context surrounding the conflicting claims coming out of the Popasna axis.
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May 17
Putin's War -- The May 17th map briefing.
Russian gains around Popasna, Sievierodonetsk and Adiivka.
Further Ukrainian assaults into the forest west of Izyum.
I have also updated the frontline around Kherson and the Vuhledar-Orikhiv area. ImageImageImageImage
This is my first update with updated labels that show probably around 6x as many towns and villages labeled at the full resolution. Stay tuned for more news on that hopefully! Image
And a map showing all of Ukraine. Image
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