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Ukraine Update🧵December 26th

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Shelling locations reported by UA general staff today

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https://twitter.com/davidhelms570/status/1607361825959743490

Overview images

Svatove
The AFU repulsed attacks in the area of Novoselivs'ke and Stel'makhivka. No major changes in this area as far as I can tell.

Kreminna
The AFU repulsed attacks in the area of Nevs'ke, Ploshchanka and Chervonopopivka. RU forces are most likely trying to flank AFU forces from the north around Nevs'ke to interrupt their asault in the direction of Chervonopopivka.

I believe the AFU are slowly progressing in the area south of Kreminna. There are a lot of claims about both RU and UA "sources" confirm AFU liberated some settlements in the Kreminna area. I do not believe there is any evidence so far supporting this.

One thing we know from the past, is if there is a breakthrough, there is usually a bit of panic in the Russian telegram channels, there isn't now. And in my experience, rumors are usually confirmed within 24 hours when there are significant change.

Making it worse are political officials makin cryptic messages, while others ask for OPSEC. I think people like
@AndriyYermak should stop posting cryptic messages and stop listening to the AFU requests for OPSEC.

I encourage everyone to questions claims about "Sources confirm", "according to reports" etc.

Ask them about the sources. If they fail to provide sources, the claims are most likely false. Most of the time they just got the info from some anonymous twitter or telegram account.

Bakhmut north
The AFU repulsed attacks in the direction of Vesele, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmuts'ke, Pokrovs'ke and Bakhmut. No significant change since yesterday. As I reported yesterday, it seems like RU forces are short on ammunition, this most likely have a huge effect.

Bakhmut south and Donetsk
The AFU repulsed an attack in the area of Pivnichne, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka and Mar'inka.

More complaints by the Russians about ammunition shortage

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1607341682906873857

They also talk about Russian having ammo issues in this video.

I believe a lot of the rumors around Dibrova and Chervonopopivka come from this image posted by Wargonzo yesterday. They are notorious for drawing an inaccurate map. They recently showed RU territory on the right bank of the Dnipro.

If you look at the Wargonzo map it looks like Dibrova and Chervonopopivka are not in RU control. This does not mean the AFU liberated the settlements. It could be their usual sloppiness, or it could mean the areas are contested.

Then we have @Tendar picking up on the Wargonzo map (well spotted), then we have romanov picking up on tendars map. All of a sudden we have multiple sources saying the same thing and it's "confirmed by both RU and UA sources"

Interesting stories about mentality in the RU army.

https://twitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1607398257180672000

If you wonder why I keep reposting things it's because twitter is shit. It's just horrible to try to make a thread these days.

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