Kupyansk - Svatove
RU forces holds the line around Vil'shana NE of Kupyansk preventing the AFU from creating a buffer around their bridge head. At this point the AFU bridgehead is in range of RU artillery. This most likely make it hard for the AFU to advance in this area.
Kreminna
RuAF attacks were repulsed in the direction of Nevske, Ploshchanka and Bilohorivka. Shellings reported around Chervonopopivka, Pishchane and Dibrova which most likely indicate continued AFU operations close to the settlements.
Bakhmut north
The AFU repulsed attacks around Yakovlivka, Soledar, Pidhorodne and Bakhmut. I think both the shelling and the report of an attack around Yakovlivka indicate this settlement is still contested, despite RU claims of capturing it.
Bakhmut south
The AFU repulsed attacks around Optyne, Kurdyumivka and Druzhba. I think the shellings and reports of attacks indicates not much has changed in this area despite a lot of dramatizing by German "journalists".
Donetsk
Unsuccessful RU attacks on Nevelske, Pobjeda and Novomykhailivka were reported by Ukrainian general staff.
The shelling pattern is deeper than usual along the southern frontline. This could indicate UA troop accumulations. It could also be a coincidence.
There is one more thing. The last few weeks, I believe there has been an increase in UA shellings in the Tokmak area. Which might indicate shaping operations.
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These images shows the RU progress in the Bakhmut area for the last 3 months. Can we all calm down now?
2022-08-31 vs 2022-12-11
That is about 10km south of Bakhmut.
While Russian forces was busy gaining 10k south of Bakhmut, Ukraine did this. They liberated some where around 25000km2 in the Kharkiv and Kherson region.
Shelling locations reported by UA general staff. What I usually leave out, is the daily terrorist shellings on the civilian population in the north. The same is happening in Kherson, the shellings there is not to prevent UA advances, it's to terrorize the civ population.