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...
A regional war in the horn of Africa between many actors
I talked about Sudan🇸🇩, about Somalia🇸🇴, about Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and about South Sudan 🇸🇸. All these conflicts are in fact a larger regional war between local and foreign powers, we can see this map with Sudan
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The war in Sudan is opposing the army led by Al Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Hemetti.
However this cannot be only seen as a local civil war. Its implications are wider. Same for the Ethiopian, Somalian and South Sudanese conflicts.
The SAF allies :
-Turkiye 🇹🇷
-Egypt 🇪🇬
-TPLF (Tigray rebel forces in Ethiopia)🇪🇹
-SPLM-N (South Sudan Nuer rebellion of Machar)
-Iran 🇮🇷
-Qatar 🇶🇦
-Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 (traditionnaly, but with more neutral position currently)
En #Ethiopie 🇪🇹, 5 ans de guerre sans couverture médiatique
Oui, la "guerre civile éthiopienne" qui a commencé dans le Tigré en 2020 est toujours en cours, cette fois dans l'Amhara, depuis 2023 entre les rebelles "Fano" et l'armée.
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L'arrivée au pouvoir d'Abyi Ahmed en 2019 coïncide avec la fin de la domination des tigréens, puissant peuple du nord sur les affaires éthiopiennes.
Dès 2020, Addis Abeba lance une opération militaire pour désarmer le TPLF, Front Populaire de Libération du Tigré.
L'Ethiopie, c'est une mosaïque de peuples, dont les deux principaux, Amhariens et Oromiens représentent chacun 1/3 de la population. Les tigréens et les afars suivent avec 4% et 7% de la population, avec ensuite une série de peuples plus petits.
Ce territoire moldave 🇲🇩 séparatiste depuis 1992 abrite environ 6 000 forces d'actives, dont 1 500 soldats russes 🇷🇺. Une épine dans le pied de l'Ukraine.
Enjeux militaires d'un territoire isolé ⬇️
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En 2022, lors de l'invasion russe de l'Ukraine, les 49ème et 58èmes armées avaient pour objectif de prendre Kherson, Mykolaiv puis de se joindre aux forces en Transnitrie pour prendre Odessa.
Fin février 2022, les russes sont défaits devant Mykolaiv et tentent de trouver un pont
Leur expédition les amènent jusqu'à Voznessensk, premier pont bien plus au nord, dynamité au dernier moment par les ukrainiens.
Isolés et défaits, les russes se retirent entre Kherson et Mykolaiv et abandonnent la jonction avec la Transnitrie.
In #Sudan 🇸🇩, the war of the generals turned into a Turkiye 🇹🇷 - United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 proxy war.
Both sides have been widely active to support the Sudanese Armed Forces (for 🇹🇷) and the Rapid Support Forces (for 🇦🇪).
Analysis of a forgotten conflit :
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After 2.5 years of war that saw the RSF capture Darfur (west), the capital Khartoum, the south of the country (Gezira, Sennar) and the army recapture Khartoum and the South, the frontline now divides the country in a east-west division
The current battle is happening in Kordofan
Apart from this frontline dividing Sudan, we still have 4 encircled army bases in the west, the main one being El Fasher, home to both the 6th army division and the former Darfuri rebels.
Encircled for 2 years, the army garrison faced important defeats lately.
Après l'inauguration du Grand Barrage de la Renaissance, l'Ethiopie 🇪🇹 à la recherche d'un accès à la mer.
Dans la Corne de l'Afrique, la confrontation militaire couve. L'Ethiopie semble préparer une opération pour annexer le sud de l'Erythrée 🇪🇷.
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Assab, Djibouti, Berbera. Trois ports, trois débouchés trois objectifs.
L'Ethiopie, en pleine croissance démographique et économique, qui vient d'inaugurer le GERD sur le Nil, veut sortir de son enclavement et ne plus dépendre de ses voisins pour exporter ses biens.
Le rêve d'Abyi Ahmed ? Que l'Ethiopie accède à la mer rouge.
Mais face à elle, seules trois options s'ouvrent : Djibouti ? Impensable, l'indépendance du pays est garantie par les occidentaux et sa localisation trop stratégique.
Dans les territoires occupés du sud de l'Ukraine 🇺🇦 entre résistance discrète, russification forcée et reconstruction de façade
A Marioupol, Melitopol et Berdiansk, la Russie 🇷🇺 réorganise son "pont terrestre" vers la Crimée
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Ils sont 3 à 5 millions d'oubliés. Ces ukrainiens, russophones ou non, pro-russes ou non qui sont à l'intérieur des territoires occupés par Moscou.
Si la majorité des ukrainiens occupés le sont depuis 2014 (à Donetsk, Louhansk et en Crimée (peut-être 2-2.5 millions en tout)...
...ce serait oublier les 500 000 à 1 millions d'ukrainiens qui sont tombés sous l'occupation russe en février-mars 2022 dans le sud du pays, dans les oblasts de Kherson, Zaporizhia et dans le sud de celui de Donetsk, à Marioupol.