Russian 🇷🇺 airforce launched 700 NEW airstrikes near Pokrovsk 🇺🇦 in 2 weeks, with more than 80% in the Pokrovsk-Dobropilla direction.
To sustain its offensives operations, Moscow also launched 800 strikes at Lyman and Siversk and 2 800 at Sumy !
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1- Pokrovsk-Kostiantynivka
Since may, I'm mapping most of russian airstrikes betwee, the two key cities of Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka.
The frontline is 50km long and I mapped around 3 800 airstrikes there in 4 months !
Here, you can find 3 different colors.
I've used red for may to june 11th. I also use red for non dated airstrikes elsewhere (Sumy, Lyman, Siversk).
Orange is for june 11th to july 11th, blue from july 11th to august 11th and finally yellow, just bellow.
I've already mapped around 700 new airstrikes, I still need to have good sattelitte images for the Kostiantynivka direction to see if there are more (no images from there since 6 days).
Thus, we have 4 main airstrikes concentration, around the New Donbass Line and around 3 main cities, Bilytske, Bilozerske and Dobropilla.
Here, near Nove Shakove, we can see that Russia bombed a treeline (around 15 impacts) where ukrainien forces were trying to progress during there counter-offensive.
Here, around the New Donbass Line, a very large and well prepared defensive line, we can see multiple airstrikes. We are more than 20km from the frontline.
As usual, this is showing where russian army is willing to make progress in the next weeks and months.
First, they destroy ukrainian positions, then they launch assaults.
Yesterday, I published this map showing the advancement of my reasearch work.
As you can imagine, it is free and it takes me a lot of time and energy. Now, I discovered something new :
2- Lyman and Siversk
In Lyman and Siversk, russian airforce conducted around 800 airstrikes, with more than 80% in the last 3 weeks.
It comes amid the fall of the fortified Serebyanka forest and russian progress north-west of Lyman.
What does it tells us ?
Russia is pushing north of Lyman and will try 1 to cut the city and 2 to go beyond Sloviansk.
At the same time, they are pushing to finally take Siversk.
Among the clouds, you can see here, west of Lyman, around 100 airstrikes in a single forest, probably an area where Ukraine is hiding manpower, artillery...
I'll be waiting for additionnal images from the area, probably this evening or tomorrow !
3- Sumy
Around the Sumy incursion, I've now mapped 2 800 (!) airstrikes.
Around 85% are present in the treelines, villages and forests north of the city, around russian presence. This campaign is massive.
Here is a more general map from the area !
As for every map here, a dot represent an airstrike !
4- Southern front
From Pokrovsk to Hulialpole, russian forces are also pushing and making progress. This is sustained by a strong airstrike campaign. I couldn't update all the map yet, but I've at least this :
I looked a bit into Kupiansk, Kharkiv or Chasiv Yar. There are a lot of impacts there as well, but less than in the highlighted areas.
I sadly don't have enough time and interest into mapping all this, but it gives us a good overview.
Main informations :
-Russia increased its airstrike activity north and west of Lyman
-Russia is bombing the river banks of Siverki Donets near Siversk
-Russia continued to massively target the Pokrovsk-Kostiantynivka diection with around 350 to 400 airstrikes a week there.
I really thank everyone who take time to read me until the end.
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Next, I will post an update to fortifications, where they are being build, how they function, if there are useful...
En ces derniers jours de 2025, l'armée russe 🇷🇺 s'est emparée de la cité d'Houlialpole dans le sud de l'Ukraine 🇺🇦
La prise de la ville ouvre la voie à une course contre la montre pour Zaporizhia, entre fortifications ukrainiennes et progression russe.
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C'est le coup d'éclat de cette fin d'année, après avoir été un point fort du front ukrainien pendant 4 ans, la petite ville d'Houlialpole est tombée en 1 mois de combats.
Comme le montre la carte d'@AndrewPerpetua, la majorité de la ville est désormais sous contrôle russe.
La chute de la ville conclue une année de progression inarrêté de l'armée russe depuis Kourakhove dans les faubourgs ouest de Donetsk, poussant d'environ 75km vers l'ouest, sur un front large de 20 à 30km, principalement en élargissant la ligne de contrôle du front sud.
Malgré la libération de la capitale Khartoum, des défaites en cascades pour l'armée dans l'ouest et la partition du pays en ligne de mire.
Avec le massacre de 60 000 civils à El Fasher, la guerre a gagné une attention internationale
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Tout avait pourtant si bien commencé.
L'armée soudanaise entrait début 2025 dans la capitale Khartoum, libérant un certains nombre de bases encerclées et des millions de civils pris au piège.
Les FSR fuyant vers l'ouest abandonnèrent leurs positions sur le Nil.
La victoire à Khartoum et dans la grande métropole (à Omdourman, Bahri ou Ombada) fut le fruit d'une longue contre-offensive débutée en septembre 2024 à Singa, Sennar et Wad Medani au sud du pays.
Elle se termina en mars dans les faubourgs d'Omdourman.
The NEW DONBAS LINE, a massive ukrainian 🇺🇦 fortification program
This year, Ukraine built important fortifications that may be able to stop or slow down russian 🇷🇺 forces. Visible from space, these fortifications have already proven useful.
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This weekend, Ukraine published this video showcasing their new defensive line.
For the first time, they officially showed the results of months of digging effort. This video shows the most advanced defensive line, with only two holes in 16km !
This line is new because it is not only anti-tank or anti-infantry obstacles, but all of them at the same time.
We can count 21 barbed wires rows (4 lines and 3 lines at the bottom of ditches), 3 dragon teeths rows and 3 rows of anti-tank ditches.
Ukrainian 🇺🇦 forces liberated most of Kupiansk city in a rather uncommon counter-attack
Despite setbacks in Pokrovsk, Siversk or Vovchansk, counter-offensive operations in Kupiansk managed to save the city and its surrondings for additionnal months.
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Few days ago, Volodymyr Zelensky filmed himself at the entrance of the city of Kupiansk, less than a month after Vladimir Putin claimed it was liberated by russian forces, inviting western medias into it.
A year ago, russian forces crossed the Oskil river for the first time in Dvorichna area.
Back then, the infiltration remained small. However, during the spring and the summer of this year, they accumulated forces, using underground pipes to enter Kupiansk city.
La République Démocratique du Congo 🇨🇩 est-elle coupable d'héberger et d'armer les FDLR, des rebelles qui nourrissent l'ambition d'envahir le Rwanda 🇷🇼?
Entre mythes et réalités, la question des FDLR est au cœur de la guerre dans l'est de la RDC.
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Après avoir perpétré le génocide contre les tutsis (et les hutus modérés) en 1994 (800k à 1 million de morts), les Forces Armées du Rwanda et les génocidaires interahamwe ont pris la fuite avec 2 millions de Hutus vers le Zaïre.
Contrairement à ce qui a souvent été dit, l'Armée Zaïroise et les forces de l'ONU/françaises, n'ont pas eu ni la volonté ni la capacité de désarmer entièrement et efficacement les hutus fuyant le Rwanda.
Ainsi, dans l'est du Zaïre, de nombreuses armes lourdes sont arrivées.
Au Yémen 🇾🇪, le coup de force des Emirats-Arabes-Unis 🇦🇪 pour contrôler le sud du pays
Les forces du Conseil de Transition du Sud (STC), un proxy pro-émirats, ont lancé une vaste offensive militaire, s'emparant d'une grande partie du sud du pays.
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Le STC s’appuie sur un réseau armé sudiste fortement soutenu, équipé et entraîné par les Émirats Arabes Unis, et ancrées dans un puissant sentiment identitaire sudiste pro-sécession.
Ils contrôle le sud du pays.
Les forces du gouvernement se composent d’un ensemble hétérogène : Armée nationale (ANY), brigades du MOD, unités tribales et islamistes, appuyées par l’Arabie saoudite ; elles disposent d’effectifs théoriquement importants mais fragmentés, sans cohésion stratégique forte et dépendants du soutien extérieur.