I dunno if I am going to do an update today. I don’t see news worth reporting on. Everything is basically the same as yesterday. It seems the biggest stories today were things I reported on like 3 days ago.
Like, today, Russia attacked all the same towns as yesterday. Especially around Bakhmut. Yakovlivka, Soledar (cluster munitions, too), that one street in Bakhmut, Zaitseve, Vershyna, Kodema. They shot butterfly mines into Krasnohorivka. Attacked Avdiivka, Pisky, Marinka.
Ukraine is still attacking south in Zaporizhzhia with no notable gains. What is noteworthy is that Russia reinforced all of the areas Ukraine has been attacking and then counter attacked north and Ukraine stopped that attack and began moving south again.
And in the Kherson area, Russia is trying to push Ukraine back across the Inhulets, but they are failing. Ukraine has done a lot of damage to Russian attacks using artillery, and they have expanded their area of control to an unspecified extent.
In the Kharkiv area, the fighting around Husarivka is the main concern. Ukraine claims to have halted the attack, but Russia claims the attack is ongoing. Personally, I think it is more likely the attack is ongoing.
To me, the most interesting areas is Zaporizhzhia. Zaporizhzhia is an extremely slow moving fight, and has been for weeks. Do not expect it to speed up. Ukraine has been capturing on average one town per week, sometimes including a few tiny satellite settlements.
That average is dragged down a bit because for a long time they were attacking in two areas, and now they are attacking in 4. So maybe that will make things a bit more exciting.
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