Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Avdievka.
Positional battles in the industrial zone and north of the village along the Avdeevka-Konstantinovka highway. There has been no significant progress in recent days. The artillery of the Avdievka group continues shelling Donetsk and other settlements.
The fighting at the Donetsk airport is in a positional vein. Opytnoye - completely under the enemy. Fights with the aim of advancing to Opytnoye have not yet yielded decisive results.
2. Peski.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the army of the DPR are entrenched in the occupied fortified area and are methodically pushing the enemy away from the outskirts of Peski from the nearest forest plantations, although the enemy continues to claim that he is still fighting for Peski.
He has already lost the main fortifications here. Our troops are applying pressure in the direction of Pervomaisky and Nevelskoye (there is a slight advance) and in the direction of Vodyany, with the aim of advancing towards the Orlovka-Avdeevka highway and trying to take them under fire control from the south. The enemy understands this, so he fortifies himself in Vodyany, transfers reserves to Orlovka in case of an unfavorable development of events. The main advance of our troops in this direction becomes possible mainly due to the overwhelming artillery destruction of enemy positions, which in a significant part of cases ensures the success of the assault groups.
3. Marinka.
There is little progress in the village. The enemy is holding the western part of the settlement behind a waste heap and has not yet demonstrated readiness to withdraw. The current activity of assault groups and the factor of artillery destruction of enemy positions is still not enough to knock the enemy out of positions.
Attempts to advance south of Maryinka between Maryinka and Novomikhailovka have so far not given decisive results.
4. Ugledar.
On the outskirts of Novomikhailovka - positional battles, as in the Shevchenkovo ​​area. Pavlovka is still under the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Ugledar-Marinka road has not yet been cut. The enemy periodically makes counterattacks with forces up to 1-2 companies, but to no avail. Positional tendencies continue to dominate.
5. Artemovsk.
The main battles were for the Zaitsevo-Kodema line. Zaitsevo (not to be confused with the captured Gorlovsky Zaitsevo) is still under the enemy, the fighting is on the near approaches, but ours have not yet entered the village itself. Kodema is partially covered by our troops, the fighting has moved to the village itself, although it is too early to talk about control, the enemy is stubbornly resisting. Attempts to counterattack the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not lead to success and ended in losses without any results.
On the outskirts of Artemovsk - no change. It has not yet been possible to advance to the Artyomovsk-Soledar road.
Regular strikes against concentrations and locations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk, in the area of ​​Chasov Yar and other settlements. The artillery group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in addition to supporting the troops, continues to launch missile strikes on the territory of the DPR and LPR.
6. Soledar.
Fighting in the industrial zone to the west of the Knauf plant and in the area of ​​​​the quarry, from where the APU was ousted. The enemy is stubbornly defending himself and is clearly counting on a long-term defense of the western part of Soledar. The assault on Bakhmutsky continues, but the village has not yet been taken.
To the north of Soledar - battles near Belogorovka and Yakovlevka (not yet completely taken).
In the Seversk area, as a whole, there are no changes - the battles at Serebryanka, Grigorovka, Verkhnekamensky, Ivano-Daryevka. The Seversk-Soledar highway is still under enemy control.
7. Slavyansk.
Here tendencies to positionality triumph. In addition to a slight advance in the area of ​​​​Bogorodichny, the last days were marked by fighting near the ruins of Mazanovka. Attempts to counterattack the Armed Forces of Ukraine ended in heavy losses for them. Here the front has stabilized.
The Russian Armed Forces continue to strike at concentrations of troops in the Slavyansko-Kramatorsk agglomeration and at the communications of the Donbass group, the most striking evidence of which was the destruction of a train with reservists in the Chaplino area (more than 200 - KIAs), whom the enemy tried to pass off as "civilians".
8. Izyum.
In the area of ​​Kurulka and Bolshaya Kamyshevakhi - in general, no changes. The mutual activity of the DRG parties in the forests and the lack of forces on both sides keep the positional front, which was formed back in April-May, unchanged. Attempts by the RF Armed Forces to achieve tactical success in the Gusarovka area and advance in the direction of Barvenkovo ​​and the Barvenkovo-Slavyansk highway did not produce decisive results.
9. Kharkov.
Fighting near the village of Udy in the direction of Zolochiv. The enemy reinforced this direction with reserves after the withdrawal last week. Fighting at Dementievka, south of Borshcheva in the direction of Cherkassy Tishok. The enemy continues shelling the border settlements of the Russian Federation.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflict regular strikes on Kharkov, Chuguev, in the Zolochev area. Despite recent tactical shifts in favor of the RF Armed Forces, positional tendencies dominate here.
10. Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoselovka - without significant changes. The activity of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the area of ​​Gulyaipol and Velikaya Novoselovka, as well as the activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​Ravnopol, did not bring success to the parties.
The enemy is shelling Energodar and the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant - Ukraine has actually disconnected itself from one of the main sources of generation. In response to the shelling of the ZNPP, the RF Armed Forces delivered strikes against targets in the area of ​​Nikopol and Marganets. It is expected that the head of the IAEA will soon arrive at ZNPP, but they do not expect much from this visit.
Preparations for a referendum on the annexation of the liberated territories to Russia have officially started in Zaporozhye, which forces the Zelensky gang to speed up terrorist attacks in order to disrupt the referendum. Nuclear blackmail around the ZNPP is also aimed at disrupting the referendum, which should ensure the irreversibility of Ukraine's loss of the next territories.
11. Nikolaev.
After the defeat of the enemy in the battles for Blagodatnoye and the occupation of the settlement by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the enemy sat on the defensive. Our troops continue to probe the enemy defenses near the Kherson-Nikolaev highway, expand the control zone on the coast near Aleksandrovka in the direction of Golitsyno. Our troops have good tactical progress, but they should not be confused with a full-fledged attack on Nikolaev. There is also no attack on Kherson, it was actually thwarted by the Russian Armed Forces in mid-August and now remains only in outdated propaganda clichés.
12. Krivoy Rog.
The enemy continues unsuccessful attempts to gain a foothold in the bridgehead in the area of ​​Belogorka and Andreevka, where he has already suffered heavy losses in people and equipment. The terrain here is not conducive to the offensive activity of the parties, and the RF Armed Forces, taking advantage of the advantage in artillery, regularly inflict serious losses on the enemy in manpower during attempts to attack by forces of reservists and Volkssturm.
The front on the Ingulets River was never able to provide the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the necessary foothold for an attack on Berislav. Similarly, repeated attempts at attacks in the Vysokopolye and Potemkino regions ended in failure. The front here is quite stable.
The enemy continues shelling bridges across the Dnieper. Arrivals on the Antonovsky bridge and the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station are regular. Despite numerous blows, the enemy has not yet been able to bring down the supports and spans, but he has done a fair amount of holes in the bridges. Missile strikes on the positions of the RF Armed Forces in Kherson and Nova Kakhovka continue.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation regularly strike at Nikolaev and the rear of the Krivoy Rog grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13. Dzerzhinsk, Odessa, Sumy - no significant changes.