The amount of shelling locations reported by the UA general staff was higher than usual today. We can see the hot spots are Svatove, Bakhmut and Donetsk.
Weather by @davidhelms570
The night temperatures are crawling down towards 0 in the northern AO with little rain for the coming week. A bit warmer in the south, possibly 12 degrees daytime tomorrow.
Kupyansk
GSUA reported a shelling around Vil'shana, I expanded AFU forward line slightly. Fighting going on in the contested areas, no indications of significant change on this section.
Bakhmut
RU attacks are intensifying here, even if the AFU repulse the attacks, the Russians keep coming WW2 style. RU have had partial success both north and south of Bakhmut. By that I mean they managed to take a few observation posts.
The AFU repulsed attacks around Yakovlivka, Bakhmut, Optyne, Klishchiivka, Andriivka and Ozarianivka
I posted this yesterday regarding the attacks in Bakhmut:
"There are 12 incoming in Svatove, 10 ruptured, 2 seem to be missing. In the area of ​​the meat processing plant, in the area of the oil depot. In the area of the depot where the benches near the fountain did not burst. Just called mine." -- Local telegram chat
Kremlin slaves at the gas stations on the Bakhmut approach.
đź§µThe situation in Vovchansk is interesting. The map shows geolocated positions the last 8 days h/t @UAControlMap. When the first rumors about an encirclement at the aggregate plant, I thought it was BS. But it appears there is some truth to it, supposedly 83rd VDV.
The extent of isolation and the amount of people is unclear. Once interesting thing is the Russians committed one of their best units, 2nd Special Purpose Brigade to fight in the town. We have mostly seen poorly trained and equipped units without mechanized support in this fight
According to RU channels UA withdrew from the Filtration Plant in the east and Zenith in the south. This is good news, since avoiding an encirclement should be a priority at this point. It seems the coke plant and Kvartal high-rises are the current UA strongholds.
RU forces continue to try to fully encircle Avdiivka pushing mainly from 3 directions.
It remains to be seen if Ukraine are planning to withdraw from the east side of the city, but I think it's a pretty good idea to do so.
UA might chose to fight for the coke plant and Kvartal for a bit, but the gap for the gloc is only 3km and consists of 2 windbreaks.
I frequently get questions like:
"Are you ok?"
"What happened?"
"Why did you stop posting?"
So here we go⬇️
Yes I'm ok.
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Time.
I have less time to follow Ukraine. I usually spent about 3-4 hours a day to just make my daily threads and going through all the information channels. To be able to keep the information reliable, I have to put in 6-10h per day. I dont have that kind of time anymore.
I lost my best friend in March, so I had go get a new one. He is getting a lot of my attention now.
đź§µDuring the last week, Ukrainian forces have advanced 32km2 in the Robotyne direction. They are expanding their penetration of the Surovikin and have reached the outskirts of Verbove and Verbove.