Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Material from the V Kontakte page of Reports from the militia of Novorossiya.
ππ»1. Mariupol.
Serious promotion in the city. There is a weakening of organized resistance and an acceleration of the advancement of assault groups inside the city. Materials from the city show that the enemy is suffering heavy losses. Attempts by one way or another to escape from Mariupol by enemy soldiers are becoming more frequent.
In the evening, Kadyrov announced the liberation of the Left Bank region from the enemy.
ππ»2. Ugledar.
Heavy fighting continues on the Novomikhailovka-Konstantinovka line. At Velyka Novoselka, no progress was reported.
ππ»3. Marinka.
A small advance in the village, but there is still work to do. The enemy continues to offer very stubborn resistance.
ππ»4. Avdievka.
Fighting continued on the outskirts of the village. To the north, fighting was going on in the area of ββββNovobakhmutovka and Novoselki-2.
ππ»5. LPR.
No changes in Lisichansk and Severodonetsk. Near Popasnaya, the LPR army occupied the village of Novoaleksandrovka. Fighting continues in Popasna itself. Shelling of Rubizhne also continues.
ππ»6. Kyiv.
Heavy fighting continued in the area of ββIrpin and Bucha. Both sides are actively working with artillery. There were also active battles to the northeast and east of the Brovary region.
Near Chernigov without significant changes. Ukrainian sources reported on the battles for Slavutych, but there is almost no information about this.
ππ»7. Nikolaev.
On the front line without major changes. Just like that part of the group that went to Krivoy Rog and Nikopol.
ππ»8. Izyum.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that Izyum had been taken. The governor of Kharkov says that they are still holding out in the south of the city.
According to sources from the field, the battles for Kamenka continue, both sides are pulling up additional forces. Izyum himself was badly damaged during the fighting.
ππ»9. Slavyansk-Kramatorsk.
Regular strikes on military facilities in the agglomeration continue - they hit both warehouses and stocks of fuel and lubricants, and clusters of equipment.
ππ»10. Zaporozhye.
There are no significant changes on the front line.
The main event was the fire at the Saratov large landing ship in the port of Berdyansk (the reason has not yet been officially announced - there are versions - Tochka-U, Smerch, sabotage, negligence. The ship was seriously damaged and sat down on the bottom near the quay wall.
Another BDK was also damaged in the explosion, the fire on it was extinguished after leaving the harbour.