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Sur le front sud, l'armée russe 🇷🇺 réactive son offensive à Kamianske et Velika Novosilka, aux 2 extrémités des lignes de défenses

En poussant sur le front de Zaporizhia, l'armée russe a pour objectif d'atteindre les lignes de défenses ukrainiennes🇺🇦

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En 2022, les forces armées ukrainiennes ont stoppé l'offensive russe dans l'oblast de Zaporijia sur une ligne composée de 4 petites villes, Kamiansk'e, Orikhiv, Houlialpole et Velika Novosilka.

Depuis, le front n'a presque pas bougé dans le secteur. Image
Les forces russes tenteront d'abord d'atteindre la première ligne défensive, avant de progresser vers la seconde, où elles pourront bombarder Zaporijia au MLRS, un objectif important.

En général, la direction ouest de Zaporijia n'est pas très risquée. Image
En effet, l'armée ukrainienne a eu le temps de préparer des défenses, environ 3 principales faisant face au sud et 3 faisant face à l'est de Zaporizhia.

Les centres urbains sont encore loin du front et plusiuers rivières protègent les lignes de défenses. Image
Si on regarde la densité urbaine, on remarque une vallée peuplée au sud de Zaporizhia, tandis que tout le territoire plus à l'est est largement vide, notamment autour de Houlialpole, seul centre urbain du secteur.

Le territoire est maillé par deux lignes de défenses. Image
La direction plus à l'ouest, dans l'oblast de Donetsk est plus critique, puisque l'armée russe suit la rivière Mokri Yali depuis Velika Novosilka pour remonter à la jonction de 3 rivières, à l'arrière des lignes de défenses ukrainiennes. Image
Les forces russes remontent vers le nord, dépassant la partie de la première ligne de défense non terminée (comme d'habitude) et qui est tombée rapidement, atteignant désormais la seconde ligne.

Les ukrainiens préparent une nouvelle ligne à l'ouest. Image
Ainsi, l'armée russe tente d'atteindre les principales lignes de défenses dans la région, il est trop tôt pour parler d'une offensive plus large, puisque ce qu'il se passe à l'ouest n'a aucun lien avec ce qu'il se passe à l'est de la direction sud.
Ailleurs sur le front, l'armée ukrainienne tient toujours à Pokrovsk malgré la reprise des assauts russes, assauts qui se poursuivent également sur tout le front de l'est sans progression majeure ces derniers jours, sur les axes de Toretsk, Tchasiv Yar, Siversk, Lyman et Borova.
L'armée ukrainienne a presque quitté l'oblast de Koursk, maintenant une importante force à la frontière face à l'incursion russe.

Mais aujourd'hui, c'est à Belgorod, quelques kilomètres plus au sud que l'armée ukrainienne repasse à l'attaque...
On peut évidemment questionner l'intérêt d'une telle offensive alors que ces hommes seraient utiles à l'est.

L'idée est la continuité de Koursk, obliger la Russie à déployer de manière permanente plus d'hommes sur la frontière, faisant de celle-ci une ligne de front. Image
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Forcément, ces attaques provoquent des pertes matérielles et humaines sans obtenir de larges résultats, mais forçant une pression générale sur tout le front.
Je continuerai à suivre et analyser la situation à Belgorod, Koursk et ailleurs sur le front, notamment avec des mouvements intéressants sur différents fronts.
Venez me suivre ici aussi !

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Jul 11
In recent weeks, Ukraine 🇺🇦 launched a large number of strikes against electricity infrastructure in Crimea

Since 2026 started, both Ukraine and Russia 🇷🇺 launched continuous strikes against each other energy infrastructure.

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Recently, most of Crimea has been without power after a large number of Ukrainian strikes (source : @georgewbarros).

You can see here that most of the peninsula was lacking electricity, including large cities.
In total, around 37 electric substations have been hit, together with oil and gas infrastructure.

This has drastic consequences on both civilian and military infrastructure of the peninsula.
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Jul 8
During the first week of July, Ukraine 🇺🇦 continued to target Russian 🇷🇺 trucks and logistics, hitting more than 240 vehicles, 34 per day.

Despite fewer coverage, these strikes continue to be a very big problem for Russian forces across occupied territories.

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The number of strikes continue to increase, with nearly 600 trucks and vehicles hit in june 2026 (around 20 per day) and already 240 for the 1st week of july (34 per day).

All these strikes are only the confirmed ones from ukrainian videos, I do not count videos from the ground. Image
Today, the Ukrainian army of drones () published a compilation of nearly 200 strikes on trucks and vehicles near Crimea.

This video covers multiple units work for the 1st week of July. The good point ? Everything is proven. t.me/robert_magyar/…
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Jul 3
Let's dive in Russian 🇷🇺 war propaganda machine

Recently, new videos emerged of Russian soldiers showing their flag far behind the frontline.

What is important about that is the aim of these operations : to show to the Russian command.

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Russian flag videos are almost always the same. One or two Russian soldiers walk along the front line for weeks, evading Ukrainian detection.

Upon reaching the rear, they spend a day wandering through an entire village with their flag, while a drone overhead films them. Image
They are often not armed and will stay in the village for a long time, hidden in a basement, most of the time being found and captured/killed and sometimes go back to their lines.

These soldiers are not meant to disrupt Ukrainian rear but to create the illusion Russia controls an area.
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Jul 2
In June 2026, Russia 🇷🇺 launched 8 284 airstrikes, of which I managed to map 49%

This airstrike campaign is at the heart of Russian offensive strategy and one of the biggest challenge to the Ukrainian 🇺🇦 armed forces.

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With artillery and drones, airstrikes are the third phase of the Russian strike campaign.

These unguided bombs—the FAB-250, -500, -1000, and -1500—are fitted with a UMPK guidance kit and dropped from more than 50 km behind the front line.

Here you can see the results of those : Image
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The use of these guided bombs is steadily increasing, reaching a record high this month.

The accuracy of the FABs, which ranged from 10% to 30% last year (with "accuracy" defined as hitting something, such as a hedgerow, a village, or a forest), now stands at between 40% and 90%.Image
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Jul 1
Russian 🇷🇺 offensive assessment for June 2026

In June, Russia occupied 28 km2 and continued offensive operations in 7 directions out of 12. Russian forces took control of some neighbourhoods inside Kostiantynivka and advanced near Sloviansk.

My analysis :

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Data above is from @Pouletvolant3 who has a strong regularity, using @Majakovsk73 data.

Below, Maps bases are from @M0nstas, with @Deepstate_UA and @AndrewPerpetua data.

The battle for Kostiantynivka has been ongoing for over 8 months.

Russian forces have been infiltrating the city's eastern, southern, and western sectors for several months; in recent weeks, they have—for the first time—managed to seize control of several neighborhoods, particularly in the west, and secure certain access routes to the city center.

Concurrently, Russian forces have launched a major propaganda campaign, showing flags across nearly the entire city and releasing videos showing their infiltration into most areas of Kostiantynivka.

Ukrainian forces maintain a presence throughout almost the entire city, although their hold on the southeastern and southwestern neighborhoods is increasingly threatened by the Russian advance into their rear. Fighting within the neighborhoods continues, and the Russian objective remains to seize control of the two roads supplying the city.

While the majority of Ukrainian assets—including drones and artillery—were evacuated in early June, the battle for the city (much like the earlier battle for Toretsk to the south) could drag on for weeks or even months until Russian forces achieve total control, enabling them to use the city as a hub for a northward push toward Drujkivka and Kramatorsk.

Overall, the battle for the city is lost, even though the Ukrainians still control more than a quarter of it—specifically the northeastern districts. It is important to understand that it is too early for Russian forces to use the city as a launch point for artillery or drone strikes; however, the initial drone units arriving in the coming weeks could intensify the threat to the northern supply routes leading to Drujkivka.Image
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In recent months, Ukraine 🇺🇦 continued to reinforce its fortifications across the country

6 months ago, Zaporizhzhia direction was lacking defensive preparation, it now has 5 defensive lines, which shows how fast Ukraine can adapt.

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Here in red are all the new fortifications built from january to jun 2026. Lines are stretching from Chernihiv to Odessa.

You can see priority was given to Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk oblast. Image
Near Zaporizhzhia, are still digging new lines, with currently 5 lines protecting the city from the east.

Red are lines dug in 2026, yellow in 2025 and white in 2024 (mostly obsolete). Image
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