As I showed last week, airstrikes suggest Russia is pushing to Komyshuvakha and Tavriiske, behind Orikhiv.
No new images from there.
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)
Here are some satellite images showing how much impacts are visible there :
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.
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 !
Images from the Uspenivka direction are showing important strikes. Very interesting to see ukrainian artillery is still capable of doing that much concentrated strikes.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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 !
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.
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).
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".
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.
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There is a very big debate to know who really controls the city of Kostiantynivka, in the Donbas region.
Many maps are showing the city as Russian controled, which in my opinion is not true, as I will explain it here.
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I gathered geolocations for the last 40 days in the city, from @UAControlMap, mainly done by @AudaxonX.
Those geolocations show flag videos, air, artillery and drone strikes as well as assault videos.
3 things you should know :
🔸We only see 5% maximum of the real situation on videos, those are known positions at a given moment, which is nowhere close to the reality on the ground.
🔸There is an important image assymetry. Russia is posting more videos of flags and few strikes while Ukraine doesn't publish flag videos but publish much more strikes. Thus, I have 146 places where Russian are confirmed present, against 94 Ukrainian. This doesn't mean there are more Russians than Ukraine, Russia published 70 videos of flags !
🔸On the map, we have plenty of areas undereported, with few Ukrainian positions when we know there are many or few Russian positions when we know there are many.
According to my observations, the situation is a 70/90 :
Ukrainian troops are present in 70% of the city while Russian troops are present in 90% of the city.
According to my informations, there are still more Ukrainians than Russians in the city, but the situation continues to worsen.
For the first time in months, Russia 🇷🇺 launched a large mechanized assault in the Dobropilla-Drujkivka area
Two armoured columns reinforced by multiple unarmoured vehicles from the 90th tank division and the 41st/8th CAA attempted to breakthrough in the Shakove area.
As you can see in the quoted tweet, this area has been subjected to heavy airstrike campaign for more than one month, while it remained a secondary direction until may. You can see here in white the recent airstrikes impacts in this direction, the same one where Russia obtained a breakthrough last year. Azov 1st Corps, which has been successfully defending the area for nearly a year managed to prevent any armoured breakthrough, showing multiple destroyed vehicles and pontoon bridges. However, infiltrations are slowly getting more frequent and Russian soldiers are often recorded behind the current grey zone, despite the absence of visual proof. As you can see, Russian armies in this direction are not doing too much PR videos with flags, which is why we have fewer flag videos. This area is right now the most strategic of the Donbas, Russia absolutely needs to control it to be able to reach Dobropilla or Drujkivka to have a fire control over the roads leading to Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
Why did Russia launch a mechanized assault here ? The main reason is how difficult it is to get there. We've recently seen videos of an impressive number of logistical and assault unarmoured vehicles destroyed on roads leading to here. This area is one of the deadliest, with older Ukrainian fortifications complicating any movement. Launching a mechanized assault helps to bring hundreds of men close to the front (even if 150 die and 150 manage to reach those positions, all of them will be able to assault and infiltrate further in the coming weeks).
As I said a month ago, I was expecting a large scale assault here, in order to unblock the front leading to Drujkivka and Dobropilla. As Russian soldiers are infiltrating and consolidating into Kosiantynivka, they will slowly manage to take full control over the city (maybe until autumn, the same way it happened in Toretsk), now the priority for them is to prepare the next battle, for Drujkivka.
Ukraine's 🇺🇦 mid-range strike campaign against Russian 🇷🇺 logistics continues, with more than 1 350 strikes on trucks and vehicles since early may
Railways, air-defense systems and energy infrastructure is also being hit on a daily basis.
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Yesterday, @414magyarbirds posted an update about strikes on the key R-280 highway, so called "Novorossia" road between Rostov and Crimea.
On this road alone, I have around 175 geolocalized trucks and vehicles hit since early may.
It is highly likely that the number of trucks and vehicles hit by Ukrainian drones this month will be higher than the previous one, especially since video compilations are much more centralised by the USF.
We should expect a large number of videos for the end of the month.
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.
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/…
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.
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.