Ukraine🇺🇦 facing difficulties on the frontline is digging huge fortifications across Donbass and Zaporijia oblasts.
I already talked about the "Donbass line" facing the Surovikin system. There is now a Syrsky line similar to Russian🇷🇺one.
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This is Avdiivka map, my own work with the help of "playfra" on discord.
After the Ukrainian defenses west of Avdiivka collapsed, the Russian army is now facing the first line of defense.
This line is not optimal for defense but it is still good since there are lakes and water bodies supporting it.
I think the Russian army is going to take Orlivka and it will advance in the hole of the defensive line west of it.
Since the end of december, the Ukrainian army has been impoving its defensive lines. The secondth one is the best one, helped with lakes and a river. The approch to Niu York, Oukrainsk and Selydove won't be easy.
(defenses being improved everyday)
I won't talk much about Bakhmout since i havn't updated the map. You can undestrand that the village of Ivanivske was well defended, but the main line is on the canal in front of Tchasiv Yar.
This is the news of the day: the Ukrainian army is building a big line all along Zaporijia oblast, with anti-tank ditches and trenches just as Russian did a few kilometers south.
I can't share satellite pictures for now, but you have to understand it is really impresive.
Finally, after Russian advance in Novomykhailivka, the Ukrainian armed forces began to dig new defenses east and south of Kourakhove, including this big anti-tank ditch.
This is how it looks like ⬇️
And to conclude, a vision of the entire frontline.
This is my first work about it.
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Ukrainian fortifications are improving. The main defensive lines (yellow) are meant to protect Ukraine's rear.
Between these main lines, we can find multiple smaller ditches lines are barbed wire lines. This strategy is cutting the frontline :
We now have multiple squares and rectangles between main and secondary lines.
The frontline is literraly cut in pieces, the black ones are the finished/expected ones and the grey the larger ones, behind, that will be later cut in between.
Après plusieurs semaines de contre-attaques, l'armée ukrainienne a repris le contrôle de larges territoires disputés dont ~12 villages dans l'est de l'oblast de Zaporizhia.
L'armée russe 🇷🇺 a été repoussée.
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Profitant de la suspension de Starling à l'armée russe (qui permettait de faire voler les drones russes et de communiquer) et de Telegram, l'armée ukrainienne a lancé une série de contre-attaques locales dans le secteur de Ternuvate et Pokrovsk'e, à l'est de Zaporizhia.
Les ukrainiens ont utilisé d'importants moyens mécanisés, une première depuis plusieurs mois, profitant notamment des mauvaises conditions météorologiques et de la suspension de Starlink qui empêchent les drones de voler.
Ces assauts ont eu lieu à l'ouest du côté de Ternuvate.
Le divorce entre l'Arabie Saoudite 🇸🇦 et les Emirats-Arabes-Unis 🇦🇪
Depuis plusieurs mois, les deux riches royaumes sont en pleine confrontation, voici un Etat des lieux :
Cliquez sur la carte et zoomez, analyse carte par carte dans les tweet suivants ⬇️
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Commençons d'abord par la carte sans la légende, pour une vision globale d'un coup d'oeil.
Le sujet ici est l'éclatement au grand jour de la rivalité KSA-UAE au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique. L'objectif est de montrer l'ampleur de l'influence émiratie et ke retour saoudien.
Prendre connaissance de la légende est également important pour pouvoir comprendre la carte.
A la fin, j'ai ajouté un petit texte comprenant les sources et une explication de la méthodologie
On a 250 km long frontline, I managed to map 12 000 russian 🇷🇺 and ukrainian 🇺🇦 artillery strikes thanks to the snow cover
With this map, I'll analyse with precision the current trends and next movements on the frontline as well as the location of the frontline
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The latest commercial satellite images (Sentinel-2) showed most of eastern Ukraine covered with snow, which is very useful.
Indeed, we can see every artillery and airstrike impacts, something we cannot see otherwise. I mapped 12 000 of them between Kostiantynivka and the Dnipro river, with two holes, the area around Novopavlivka/Ivanivka (some clouds) and the one north of Stepnohirsk and along the Dnipro, because there was no snow.
Disclaimer, this map is obviously not showing all the impacts, I may have missed some, and the ones in urban areas are a bit more difficult to map. Moreover, some of those impacts are in fact airstrikes, but it is a minority.
Let's start !
First, we can see 3 main areas of bombing : Pokrovsk-Dobrbropilla, Hulialpole-Ternuvate and Stepnohirsk.
There is one trend : Russia is putting a big effort to attack Orikhiv from both sides and to take Dobropilla in the first part of the year.