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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L'Ethiopie 🇪🇹 se rapproche de plus en plus de la guerre civile généralisée
La mobilisation massive de l'armée éthiopienne dans le nord, son retrait de larges zones de l'Amhara⚫️, vers le Tigré 🟡 et les tensions frontalières font craindre un conflit majeur.
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L'Ethiopie, 2ème pays le plus peuplé d'Afrique est très régulièrement surnommée la "Yougoslavie d'Afrique", car elle est en réalité une fédération ethnique.
La lutte de pouvoir qui opposent ces ethnies provoque des conflits meurtriers.
Ces dernières semaines et en particulier ces derniers jours, l'armée éthiopienne (ENDF) a déplacé des dizaines de milliers d'hommes vers le nord du pays.
La région visée, le Tigré était déjà au cœur d'un conflit meurtrier entre 2020 et 2022 qui avait fait 600 000 morts.
Ukrainian fortifications are improving. The main defensive lines (yellow) are meant to protect Ukraine's rear.
Between these main lines, we can find multiple smaller ditches lines are barbed wire lines. This strategy is cutting the frontline :
We now have multiple squares and rectangles between main and secondary lines.
The frontline is literraly cut in pieces, the black ones are the finished/expected ones and the grey the larger ones, behind, that will be later cut in between.
Après plusieurs semaines de contre-attaques, l'armée ukrainienne a repris le contrôle de larges territoires disputés dont ~12 villages dans l'est de l'oblast de Zaporizhia.
L'armée russe 🇷🇺 a été repoussée.
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Profitant de la suspension de Starling à l'armée russe (qui permettait de faire voler les drones russes et de communiquer) et de Telegram, l'armée ukrainienne a lancé une série de contre-attaques locales dans le secteur de Ternuvate et Pokrovsk'e, à l'est de Zaporizhia.
Les ukrainiens ont utilisé d'importants moyens mécanisés, une première depuis plusieurs mois, profitant notamment des mauvaises conditions météorologiques et de la suspension de Starlink qui empêchent les drones de voler.
Ces assauts ont eu lieu à l'ouest du côté de Ternuvate.
Le divorce entre l'Arabie Saoudite 🇸🇦 et les Emirats-Arabes-Unis 🇦🇪
Depuis plusieurs mois, les deux riches royaumes sont en pleine confrontation, voici un Etat des lieux :
Cliquez sur la carte et zoomez, analyse carte par carte dans les tweet suivants ⬇️
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Commençons d'abord par la carte sans la légende, pour une vision globale d'un coup d'oeil.
Le sujet ici est l'éclatement au grand jour de la rivalité KSA-UAE au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique. L'objectif est de montrer l'ampleur de l'influence émiratie et ke retour saoudien.
Prendre connaissance de la légende est également important pour pouvoir comprendre la carte.
A la fin, j'ai ajouté un petit texte comprenant les sources et une explication de la méthodologie
On a 250 km long frontline, I managed to map 12 000 russian 🇷🇺 and ukrainian 🇺🇦 artillery strikes thanks to the snow cover
With this map, I'll analyse with precision the current trends and next movements on the frontline as well as the location of the frontline
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The latest commercial satellite images (Sentinel-2) showed most of eastern Ukraine covered with snow, which is very useful.
Indeed, we can see every artillery and airstrike impacts, something we cannot see otherwise. I mapped 12 000 of them between Kostiantynivka and the Dnipro river, with two holes, the area around Novopavlivka/Ivanivka (some clouds) and the one north of Stepnohirsk and along the Dnipro, because there was no snow.
Disclaimer, this map is obviously not showing all the impacts, I may have missed some, and the ones in urban areas are a bit more difficult to map. Moreover, some of those impacts are in fact airstrikes, but it is a minority.
Let's start !
First, we can see 3 main areas of bombing : Pokrovsk-Dobrbropilla, Hulialpole-Ternuvate and Stepnohirsk.
There is one trend : Russia is putting a big effort to attack Orikhiv from both sides and to take Dobropilla in the first part of the year.