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I now managed to map 24 000 russian 🇷🇺 and ukrainian 🇺🇦 artillery strikes from the Dnipro to the russian border.

With this map, I'll show you exactly where Russia is putting its biggest offensive efforts and where Ukraine is counter-attacking.

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With 12k artillery (and airstrikes) found last week, I now added 12k more, including 8k more in the same area as last week (Dnipro to Kostiantynivka).

This work is entirely volunteer and free, I mapped those 24 000 dots by myself.

You can support here : buymeacoffee.com/clement.molinImage
Most of the artillery strikes impacts are concentrated in 4 main areas :

-Hulialpole/Pokrovsk'e : 8 000 !
-Pokrovsk/Dobropilla : 7 000 !
-Siversk : 1 200
-Kupiansk : 1 200 Image
1- Stepnohrisk/Zaporizhzhia :

As I showed last week, airstrikes suggest Russia is pushing to Komyshuvakha and Tavriiske, behind Orikhiv.

No new images from there. Image
2- Hulialpole

In the direction west of Hulialpole, there is an enormous number of artillery strikes, mainly russian. There is a strong ukrainian resistance south-west of Hulialpole, Russia is trying to push very hard to Orikhiv.

!!! Red for the ones last week (one week prior), yellow for the ones this week (6 days)Image
Here are some satellite images showing how much impacts are visible there : Image
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3- Ternuvate :

Ukrainian forces managed to drive out russian recon from Ternuvate. The town is still quite far from the russian control line and logistics, only airstrikes are rzaching it.

I could confirm Pokrovsk'e is largely safe (0 strikes !)

The battles are happening east. Image
4- Uspenivka

Ukraine launched small scale counter-attacks, which are followed by massive artillery strikes on russian positions (black). Ukraine probably made gains according to recent russian strikes (white).

To remember, red happened a week ago and yellow this week ! Image
Images from the Uspenivka direction are showing important strikes. Very interesting to see ukrainian artillery is still capable of doing that much concentrated strikes. Image
I can add here two animations of how strikes moved since last week.
5- Novopavlivka

I had doubts about the Novopavlivka/Ivanivka direction being inactive, all the more as there were clouds last week.

In fact, this part of the frontline is widely inactive with very few strikes. Image
6- Pokrovsk/Dobropilla

The Pokrovsk direction remains very active. Russia is massively striking being the agglomeration, aiming at capturing a buffer zone west of it and eventually reach Dobropilla.

Ukrainian fortification and resisistance is probably very high. Image
7- Kostiantynivka

The Drujkivka offensive is not yet starting, with less strikes than expected on the Shakove-Kucheriv Yar axes.

Some strikes still around Kostiantynikva. Image
8- Siversk

I started mapping today from here to Kupiansk, I'm probably still missing half of the impacts.

Not much activity on Kramatorsk direction, but a lot of shelling just west of Siversk. (no data for the area between Lyman and Siversk, forest, impossible to map). Image
9- Lyman/Borova

I also started here, with quite a regular number of strikes between both cities.Interesting to see how we can level the frontline just with these maps ! Image
10- And... Kupiansk

I didn't finish to map, but there are a lot of strikes east of Kupiansk, which suggest Russia is trying to make frontal infiltrations and assault, after having difficulties to enter the city from the north. Image
With this other image, you can understand how dense recent strikes have been.

This job can only be done when there is snow, hopefully, I will soon be able to map again airstrikes impact (the one visible in the summer). Image
With the global map, we can see the new frontline dynamic, with two lines (behind is the consolidated control and artillery presence, while the front is the grey zone, positions and what is called "frontline". Image
From what I mapped, what is happening ?

Ukraine is pushing hard in Ternuvate and Uspenivka. Russia is pushing very hard in Hulialpole and Pokrovsk, as well as Zaporizhzhia and Kupiansk. Everything else is secondary. Image
Thank you all for following. If you don't follow me, I hope this will convince you !

Anyway, I can make more detailed and beautiful analyses about one sector of the frontline. I can also giveway (sell) the 24 000 dots for journalism/research purposes).

Thanks ! Image

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May 22
Situation préoccupante à l'ouest d'Houlialpole dans le sud de l'Ukraine, où la Russie a lancé plus de 1 000 frappes aériennes ces 20 derniers jours.

La précision des frappes, environ 80%, et leur localisation montrent que l'armée russe met d'importants moyens dans la région. ⬇️ Image
A titre de comparaison, voici les frappes aériennes durant le mois d'avril dans la zone : Image
Et celles en février/mars :

On remarque bien le déplacement vers l'ouest. Image
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May 22
Russia 🇷🇺 is shutting the Rostov-Crimea road for civilian traffic after multiple ukrainian 🇺🇦 strikes hit this critical road

More strikes are also hitting the Mariupol-Donetsk highway. Right now, all the land corridor to Crimea is threatened.

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This map is made thanks to multiple geolocations from : @99Dominik_ @blinzka @carse_n @dmitrij46839 @federicoborsar1 @franfran2424 @GarbuzYe @hochu_dodomu @klinger66 @Kukulkan415 @MaxximOSINT @moklasen @neonhandrail @AndrewPerpetua @NotWoofers @tom_bike @VyshnyaOstap (among others) and my own geolocations.

I have a total of 73 trucks hit since march, but I believe this is barely 20% of the real numbers, since most of the results are not filmed and multiple videos cannot be geolocalized.
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These last 2 months, Ukraine 🇺🇦 dug 1 300 km of fortifications from Kyiv to Odesa

In the eastern part of the country, the AFU can now rely on 2 to 6 defensive lines, with kilometers of obstacle lines extending behind the front.

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When we talked about fortifications in Ukraine from 2014 to 2024, we were talking about those large trenches in the middle of the fields.

Drone war has made those completely obsolete. I put here famous ones, try to find where they are : Image
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Today's fortifications are much different. The priority is not to hide soldiers, but to prevent the ennemy from advancing.

That's why those new defensive lines are composed of 3 anti-vehicle ditches filled with anti-infantry barbed wire and multiple barbed wire lines. Image
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Si l'armée ukrainienne frappe de plus en plus le territoire russe 🇷🇺, l'armée russe poursuit et intensifie sa campagne de frappes sur l'Ukraine.

Cette carte présente une bonne partie des frappes de drones longue portée et quelques missiles depuis janvier 2026.

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Chaque jour, l'armée russe frappe le territoire ukrainien avec des centaines de drones kamikazes Shahed iranien (fabriqués en Russie sous le nom de Geran), mais aussi des leurres, comme les Gerbera ou les Parody.

On constate une augmentation progressive des frappes. Image
Après deux mois records, nous nous dirigeons progressivement vers un nouveau record avec probablement plus de 7 000 frappes de drones stratégiques en mai 2026.

Attention, il faut bien garder à l'esprit qu'environ 30 à 40% de ces drones sont en réalités des leurres. Image
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On Ukraine's 🇺🇦 southern front, Russian 🇷🇺 forces are pushing near Orikhiv, while ukrainian forces continue to launch cleaning operations.

The Russian army has intensified its attempts to push the front, while the ukrainians reinforced their fortifications.

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The southern/south-esatern front of Ukraine is the one that saw the biggest change since 2024 started.

This front is currently the second most important for Russia (1st is Donbas, 3rd is the Oskil).

Maps in the thread are from @M0nstas's online map. Image
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In the Novopavlivka-Ivanivka area west of Pokrovsk, Russia is trying to capture ukrainian strongholds in the region.

They have a lot of difficulties due to the number of ditches, fortified lines and rivers. In Novopavlivka, infiltration attempts continue without much success.

On the first (unfinished) fortified line, russian forces are trying to cross under fire the ditches (more than 100 bodies are lying there) and constantly manage to advance to Ivanivka before getting destroyed.Image
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Behind the Oskil River, the Ukrainian 🇺🇦 army is still holding out in three pockets: Kupiansk, Borova, and Lyman.

The Russian 🇷🇺 army has intensified its infiltrations in Lyman and Kupiansk in recent weeks, using the cover of trees.

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In four years, the Oskil front (named after the river crossed in October 2022) has barely moved.

Russian forces have mainly succeeded in advancing in three directions: toward Senkove, cutting the front in two; then toward Lyman, cutting it in three; and finally toward Dvorichna. Image
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Near Lyman, russian forces are launching important infiltrations, using the tree cover in the region.

They are mainly pushing south and north of the city, some soldiers even crossed the Siverski Donets river. The main objective is to cut the city from the rear. Image
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