I also added the forest left of Izium to liberated, it's just a matter of the AFU making sure it's clear at this point. This was suggested by @emilkastehelmi and I agree.
According to Ukrainian general staff:
"The enemy continues to suffer losses. In the Kharkiv direction, enemy units from the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division of the 20th Combined Arms Army were left without means of support, and the personnel were in a panicked mood."
So far today I have changed 368 km2 to liberated, this is more than half of what RuAF managed to capture in 3 months.
And it's only 1 o'clock.
I did not count the Izium forest area.
According to pro russian map maker, RuAF have more or less evacuated the area north of Kharkiv city. Consider this unconfirmed.
GSUA reported an attack in the area of Sosnivka today.
Changing Velyki Prokhody to liberated.
Non geolocated video. but it's obvious the Russians are on the run.
It seems the RuAF defenses has completely collapsed and they are running for the border, it will take time for the AFU to catch up and advance in a safe manner. This is why I have lowered the requirement a bit for what I report.
I now consider Tokarivka liberated with surrounding settlements.
No AFU visible, but I'm sure the Russians are gone.
The size of the liberated area I've been able to confirm today amounts to 1509km2
This is colored in a darker blue.
GSUA reported 111 shelling locations todyay.
According to GSUA, the Russians attacked in two locations today, Velyki Prokhody and Sosnivka. Pretty strange considering the reports of them withdrawing, but it could also be reports lagging behind.
The usual crap along he Bakhmut - Donesk front. I'm not going to list them all as it's the same as usual.
Except for the attack around Ozeryanivka, I'm pretty sure i got the wrong one.
GSUA stated:
The liberation of settlements from the Russian invaders continues. In the Kherson region, the occupiers also withdrew from their positions in some settlements.
There were two strange things in Kherson.
Sofiivka was shelled (there is one other possible location, but I think its this one)
and Zori was shelled, which I cant find.
Imagine this scenario.
The Russian army retreats from Ukraine after getting their asses kicked.
They are put in defensive positions along the border.
They are extremely unhappy because they lost most of their friends for nothing.
So if the RU army is is retreating to have artillery cover from the other side of the river, they face two problems.
First of all, they get squeezer in between the AFU and a river. That cant be good.
Secondly, the AFU has longer range artillery, so they might not need to worry that much about counter battery artillery since they can just stay out of range and still have complete fire control over the Russians.