The Kharkiv area: Russia began the day by shelling a market and a hospital in Kharkiv, injuring 21 and killing 2. A third man nearly died, but was resucitated after going into cardiac arrest due trauma caused by the explosion. That in itself is a miracle.
Russia tried to attack towards Pytomnyk again today, and the attack was repelled (1).
South east from Kharkiv, Russia attacked and recaptured Hrakove (2,3). This shows that Russia had to dip into their operational reserves to keep control of this area.
The Siversk area: Russia tried to assault Ivano-Darivka and were repelled (4).
The Bakhmut area: Russia is trying to attack Vershyna from the north (as opposed to previous attacks from the east) and the attack failed (5).
Russia is continues to attack the Vuhlehirska power plant (6) and Novoluhanske (7) but the attacks are crushed by Ukrainian artillery.
Today Russia posted videos of their artillery strikes on Ukrainian positions in Novoluhanske, which showed that Ukraine controls significantly more land than I previously thought so I have moved the line of control.
South of Donetsk: I have labelled both Mykilske (8)and Novomaiorske (9) as under Ukrainian control.
The Kherson area: At some point in the recent past Ukraine must have captured Andriivka (10) because Russia tried to recapture the town today but their attack was repelled (11).
I'm doing my daily update in a totally different format today. #ukrdailyupdate
If you would like to view the map, here is the link. Remember back when posting the link to the map generated a map preview in twitter? Pepperidge Farm Remembers google.com/maps/d/u/0/edi…
Ukraine is expanding their holdings around Lozove into establishing positions in Bilohirka (15) and Andriivka (16). Russia tried to counter attack to drive Ukraine out of these two positions (17,18), but these attacks failed. Contrary to the propaganda they pump out.
There is a lot of talk in the past two days about this area around Vysokopillya and the supposed "encirclement". First, I want to state that on July 8th Ukraine came out and said that over 90% of the structures in this town have been demolished (I have the ruins marker).
I tried finding this video on youtube and whatever but cant find it, this is made by Taras Topolya. I am going to put this image first, because this video has some gore, not gratuitous but to show the realities of combat and war. I have to upload in 3 parts because twitter.
Russian propagandists are posting Google maps images with a color filter claiming they are recent russian satellite images and highlighting defenses built years ago as brand new. People read this shit just eat it up instead of doing something as simple as opening google maps.
They are circling shadows of trees from an image taken by maxar months ago and uploaded to google map and claiming they are brand new artillery emplacements in order to justify their artillery strikes on civilian infrastructure.
Seriously, they said these are artillery tubes. I'm not linking to the dumbfuck russians but you can open google maps, go to bakhmut, and find this. It is just google maps.
Russians in Melitopol are scared, they refuse to sleep in barracks together. They refuse to spend more time than necessary around each other or the equipment. And they are moving equipment into civilian areas. For example, they've turned ЮТАС into a military base.
Apparently the Mykhailivka airfield is completed as well, but I cannot find it on satellite. So if any of you want to play "find the Mykhailivka which could also possibly be spelled Mykolaivka on the map" be my guest.
There are these two, which I thought would be the right place, but I don't see an airfield.
The Kharkiv area: Russia shelled Kharkiv, killing a 13 year old boy, wounding his 15 year old sister, and killing a couple in their 60s who were waiting for public transport.
Russia tried to advance through Pytomnyk, which is a bit of a sprawling town, but they were repelled (1)
The Slovyansk area: Russia made their normal daily attacks into Krasnopillya (2), Dolyna (3), and Bohorodychne (4), and all were repelled.
My daily update. It is very short today because I have stuff to do tonight. #ukrdailyupdate
Here is a link to the map, I encourage you to use it. The numbers have the text of this update. google.com/maps/d/u/0/edi…
Kharkiv area: Russian forces are very interested in capturing Udy, and today they sent a recon team towards the town, which was destroyed (1). I think Russia just wants to push Ukrainian forces further away from the border.
South of Kharkiv: Russian forces tried to attack Husarivka using air and artillery support (2), but the attack was repelled by Ukrainian artillery fire. I thought Ukraine held Bairak, but this attack towards Husarivka shows otherwise. Unless the attack came from Nova Husarivka.