Kreminna-Svatove
The AFU repulsed attacks in the area of Yampolivka, Dibrova, Bilohorivka and Verkhn'okam'yanka. RuAF seems to be stepping up activity in the Kreminna area.
The RU attack around Dibrova was probably done by the 76th GAAD, and it seems like RuAF are using the VDV and Naval Infantry more and more for offensive actions lately.
Bakhmut
The AFU repulsed attacks in the area of Verkhn'okam'yans'ke, Rozdolivka, Silj, Blahodatne, Paraskoviivka and Bakhmut. RuAF are making small gains and they managed to captured Blahodatne this morning. AFU most likely fell back to the fortified h-ground west of Blahodatne.
Bakhmut S
The AFU repulsed attacks in the area of Ivanivske and Klishchiivka. This area is still unclear to me and I do not know if the AFU has lost the high ground around Klishchiivka.
Donetsk
The AFU repulsed attacks in the area of Vodyane, Maryinka, Pobieda and Novomykhailivka. I have made no changes in this area in weeks.
Vuhledar
The AFU repulsed attacks in the area of Vuhledar. The RU 155th Naval infantry brigade once again got their asses kicked in this area. They managed to advance almost up to the road by Vuhledar but got pushed back to the southern dachas again.
From what I can see, the attack seems badly planned and the Russians attacked without proper pre firing by artillery again, it is however possible they wanted to surprise the AFU.
AFU have favorable positions in Vuhledar, they have high ground with high rises made out of concrete with a good view of the areas RuAF need to attack from.
Image 1 is a view of Vuhledar from the south
Image 2 is a view of Pavlivka from the same location
Ukrainian forces destroyed a train bridge between Melitopol and Tokmak. The extent of the structural damage is unclear.
Green = Railway
Red = Truck GLOC
🧵The 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.
🧵During 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.