Thread by @AndrewPerpetua

My daily update. #ukrdailyupdate
Today I changed the graphics, tell me what you think.

If you would like to see the map, here is the link: google.com/maps/d/u/0/edi…

First, the Kharkiv area: The situation hasn't changed, and it remains status quo. There is fighting Tsupivka (1), Velyki Prokhody (2), Ternova (3), and Rubizhne (4).

There is heavy artillery fire raining on every Ukrainian position in the area, and Russia has called in air strikes on the Ukrainian forces near Ternova and Rubizhne. I am not totally sure who controls Rubizhne at the moment or if it is contested.

My more reliable sources claim Rubizhne is in Russian control and they are pushing south and west from that position. My less reliable sources claim the town is contested.

The Izyum area: Ukrainian forces are slowly pushing north and east towards Izyum at a pace of around 500 meters per day (5a,5b,5c).

The Russians tried to attack towards Virnopilla (6) and in the general vicinity of Brazhkivka (7) but were they took casualties and were forced to withdraw in both cases.

This is interesting, as it seems to imply that Brazhkivka is contested, or at least that Ukraine has forces very close to this town. Russia captured this town on April 20th.

Russia is still trying to clear out the wooded areas north of Dolyna and attempted to assault the town (8), but the attack failed. Russia pushed into the north west outskirts of Bohorodychne and are trying to take a foothold within the town (9). Heavy fighting continues.

The Russians deployed electronic warfare of Bohorodychne in an effort to counter the Ukrainian use of drones (10). Meanwhile, they are launching artillery, mortars, and grenades into the town while trying to attack it from across the Siverskyi Donets river from the north (11).

The Sievierodonetsk area: Russia is firing artillery pretty much everywhere in this area. I marked some of the heavier concentrations of fire I could locate, but imagine artillery markers on every single settlement and that's probably closer to accurate.

I am not going to talk about the fighting going on within the city, as it is brutal street fighting combined with intense artillery fire and granularity of the fighting is beyond the scope of my updates or my map. However, there is a video of fighting in the city.

Russia controls Metolkine and tried to push west and south towards the south eastern section of the city, but the attack was repelled (12). Russians are working on clearing the wooded areas around the airport (13). The airport has long since been completely destroyed.

South of the city, Russia tried to push through the northern part of Toshkivka without success (14).

They are also pushing west from Orikhove, a town they captured on May 17th, but they made very little progress and reportedly still haven't left the outskirts of the town (15).

There is still heavy fighting going on in Zolote (16), Komyshuvakha (17) and Vrubivka (18). There are rumors that the Ukrainian defenses around Vrubivka may be the weakest of these three positions, but I guess we will see how this unfolds going forward.

Russian attacks were repelled from Mykolaivka (19) and Berestove (20), and I have seen reports of heavy Russian losses. In fact, apparently the Russians have lost so many men in this area (from Komyshuvakha to Berestove) that they had to reconstitute them into *a* new BTG. One.

Russian performed probing attacks near Nova Kamyanka, but were driven off by Ukrainian defenders (21).

In the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia areas everything is getting hit by artillery, and there are ongoing fighting in Novoluhanske which I have noted almost daily for quite a while. Not enough action to take the time to make an image (which takes me about 20 minutes btw).

In Avdiivka there was an enormous explosion at the chemical plant.

The Kherson/Mykolaiv area: Yesterday Ukraine pushed an attack south of Mykolaiv, and judging by the artillery markers I imagine the fight may still be ongoing (22).

I have seen reports that Ukraine is pushing in the general direction of Snihurivka, but they are not attacking the town itself. Maybe think of it more as clearing the space on the way to the settlement.

Ukraine launched attacks towards Kyselivka (24) and Soldatske (25), but I do not have information on the current status. There is talk that Ukraine launched a counter attack towards Oleksandrivka (26), but I also have sources claiming it was Russia who launched the attack.

I have labelled it as a Russian attack, but I could be wrong. Or perhaps they are both attacking simultaneously.

Other notes: Today Ukraine stated that more than 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in combat, up from the 3500 they had stated around 60 days ago. Which maps to around 100 dead per day. This number sounds about right, I kinda think the true number might be a bit higher.

In recent days Ukraine has stated it might be closer to 200-400 per day due to the increase in intensity in the Sievierodonetsk city and industrial area. Personally, I think the higher end of that estimate seems more accurate.

At the same time, Ukraine has more available men than equipment to fight with. This has been true the entire war. Ukraine also doesn't have sufficient training standards across the board for their soldiers.

Some are very well trained, and others are not. As a result, in some areas of the battlefield Ukrainian soldiers have done heroic work, and in other areas they unfortunately have not done as well.

I hope both of these issues, equipment and training, can be addressed in the near future. And perhaps you can help by going to your government official and asking them to send more military aid to Ukraine.

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