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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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.
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 :
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%.
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.
Since early May, Ukraine 🇺🇦 targeted nearly 800 Russian 🇷🇺 trucks and vehicles on key logistical roads.
This strike campaign continue to be scaling, with strikes on railway infrastructure, bridges and the isolation of Crimea.
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Here is the video of the ~784 trucks and vehicles hit by the Ukrainians (mainly videos from the drones, since we can't always tell the difference with ground footage).
Strikes target military trucks, fuel trucks, cargo trucks, cars, buses and trucks closer to the frontline.
In total, I counted 784 trucks and vehicles hit by Ukrainian drones since early May.
🔹The per day average since May is 13
🔹May average is 7 (214 trucks)
🔹June average is 19 (570 trucks)
🔸Last 10 days average is 29 (295)
Ukraine 🇺🇦 has now targeted around 500 russian 🇷🇺 trucks and vehicles during the last 48 days.
Mid-range strikes continue to expand across occupied territories, on roads, bridges and rear base. This continues to slow down russian offensive.
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From tomorrow, I will be off for more than 1 week, which means there won't be any new map/airstrike/fortification/mid-range strikes update, apart from some small tweets.
I will however continue to follow the overall trends.
In total, I have 270 geolocated strikes on trucks and vehicles since january, most of those are from May to June.
The key Rostov-Crimea road remains the priority target, but roads in Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson oblast have also been largely targeted.