Thread by @JulianRoepcke

#Breaking #NewsMap
The Ukrainian army (as so often indirectly) confirms, defense forces withdrew to the Western riverbank of the Siverski Donets, surrendering (or losing in fighting) another five villages to the Russian invasion army.
Russia claimed these gains yesterday.

This means Russian invasion forces advanced 8 km from Lyman and are now 11 km from Slovyansk.
The river is the last - and probably best- defense line, Ukraine has, before potential street fighting in the city, Russia openly formulated as the prime target of the current offensive.

Another #NewsMap shows advances by the Russian invasion army north of Popasna, also confirmed by the Ukrainian General Staff this morning.

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Russian invasion forces in occupied northern #Severodonestk city.

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The Ukrainian general staff confirms Russian invasion army advances and assaults around Svyatohirsk.

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Ukrainian general staff indicates extremely bad news coming soon from N-W of Popasna.
Ongoing ground fighting in areas, which have never been affected by "offensive and assault operations" before.
If this materializes, #Lysychansk is in big danger of being cut off.

As some people are “asking”. It is sort of an art to read the Ukrainian general staff’s situation updates. What is in them, what is not and how it is formulated gives an idea about the real situation on the ground & hints as to how to read Russian claims from the respective area.