Thread by @TrentTelenko

AFU units have entered Novoprokopivka on the Tokmak axis and are pushing hard slightly west of Verbove. 

The AFU has also cut off a lateral road between Novoprokopivka and Verbove the RuAF have been using as means of shuttling units between the two village weak points.

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https://twitter.com/georgewbarros/status/1705900934595764422

There are 28 RuAF inf. brigade flags around the Novoprokopivka - Verbove salient at 20%-to-40% strength with the boundary of two Russian combined arms armies smack between those villages.

And one, the 58th CAA HQ, just losing its command post, commander and executive officer
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The Reporting From Ukraine YouTube channel has a good run down on the events of this tactical breakthrough.

Odds are the RuAF have built their trenches to stop an enemy in front of, but not rolling along, their trenchline.

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That is, I think the AFU has an opportunity to quickly widen a breach, also giving them opportunities to find more weak points along the trench system.

I'm told AFU assault unit's biggest problems are waves of RuAF APV drones attacking infantry assault groups in daylight.

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This implies Russia has a new generation of FPV drones with a wider range of control frequencies either outside Ukrainian jammer coverage or on too many different frequencies for the available AFU jammer radiated power to cover them all at once.

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More powerful AFU jammers are easier to geolocate and be destroy with RuAF artillery.

So there is no good solution short of AFU fielding more (in numbers) and more sophisticated direction finders and jammers.

In war, "The enemy always gets a vote."

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@threadreaderapp unroll please.