Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. In the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy continued attacks in the Orekhovsky direction, but could not achieve any significant progress in the direction of Pyatikhatki and Rabotino. Neither another change of tactics, nor the massive use of cluster munitions helped to reverse the negative trends for the enemy, which causes growing skepticism in the West about the prospects for such an expensive offensive, which the United States and all its main satellites have been preparing since the end of last year, spending more than 200 billion dollars. dollars. Several settlements in the foreground of the Russian defense are clearly not what Washington was counting on.
2. On the Vremyevsky ledge, fighting continues in Staromayorsky (the enemy has not been able to establish full control over the village, ours appear there in the southern regions, the enemy controls the northern part of the village and is trying to expand the zone of control around the village in order to be able to intensively attack the adjacent heights, which controlled by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.The enemy is also trying to solve the problem that has arisen in Staromayorskoye, by attacking Urozhaynoye, which ours hold and do not allow the enemy, relying on Staromayorskoye and Urozhaynoye, to develop an offensive on Staromlynovka.As a result, the Ukrainian offensive is stalling here, wasting time without significant changes - positional battles continue with periodic local attempts by the parties to improve their position in the landings and in the area of dachas.
4. On the Maryinsky direction also without significant changes. In the western part of the city, the front stands, in the area of ​​"Zvirinets" and near Krasnogorovka in the area of ​​the ventilation shaft of the Trudovskaya mine, without significant changes.
5. In the Avdiivka area, positional battles continue with periodic attacks from the sides near Vodiane, Pervomaisky and Severny, as well as near Nevelskoye, where ours recently managed to advance towards the village (however, it is still far from taking Nevelskoye). To the north, fighting continues west of Krasnogorovka. Ours are fixed in new positions in the Kamenka area, from where they recently pushed the APU. There is still no operational encirclement of Avdiivka, despite the shelling of the road from Orlivka.
6. In the area of ​​Artemovsk, our troops continue to repel enemy attacks in the direction of Dubovo-Vasilyevka, Berkhovka, Kleshcheevka, Andreevka and Kurdyumovka. Despite the titanic efforts and the reserves transferred here, Syrsky still cannot take at least one settlement in order to announce at least some tactical success. The resilience of our troops and the huge losses of the enemy made adjustments to the enemy's plans for the rapid capture of Artemovsk in a semi-envelope.
It is also worth noting that the enemy is trying to be active with DRG forces in the area of ​​dachas on the southwestern outskirts of Artemovsk - the situation here is generally controlled, the enemy has no forces for a direct assault on the city from the west, although Artemovskaya meat grinder 2.0 might and would be beneficial to us. But the enemy will obviously not give us a second such gift.
7. On the Seversky ledge, as a whole, no changes. Enemy attacks in the direction of Soledar were confidently stopped. Our troops, in turn, continue positional battles in the area of ​​​​Disputed and Belogorovka, but we have not yet made significant progress here either. The main threat to the Seversky ledge now is the threat of Russian troops to reach the northern bank of the Seversky Donets west of Belogorovka and take the Seversk-Belogorovka road under fire control, which could violate the integrity of the defense of the ledge.
8. The successful offensive of Russian troops continues in the Svatovsky direction. Novoselovka was completely liberated, which opens up opportunities for a further offensive against Kupyansk not only from the north and northeast, but also from the east and southeast. The control of Novoselovsky removes the threat from Kuzemovka and sharply reduces the enemy's prospects in the Svatovsky direction. The advance to Oskol also continues at a speed of 1-1.5 km per day. The enemy continues to overtake reserves to strengthen the grouping in the Kupyansk area and in the Svatovsky direction as a whole.
In the Krasnolimansky direction, the enemy is still holding positions in the area of ​​​​Torskoye and Yampolovka, periodically undertaking counterattacks. Also, the enemy is still holding the defense in the western and southwestern parts of the forest area to the west of Kremennaya.