Russian sources are reporting that Ukrainian forces are storming Anastasevka and that heavy fighting is ongoing for the village.

If true, it would put them just 18km from the key town of Lgov and the E38 highway which runs through it.

Russian source "DVA majors" reported that 6-8 Ukrainian tanks are firing at houses in Ivnitsa (circled in blue). This report plus the one on Anastasevka may indicate a large Ukrainian advance into the tactical heights.

Explosions in Kurchatov. Previously a Ukrainian missile was fired.

Preliminarily, 2 missiles were shot down.

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Ukraine and Russia have both been firing drones at each other today, with Russia targeting Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Poltava, Kremenchuk + more, and Ukraine targeting Kursk, Mariupol and Lipetsk.

A strong explosion near the Lipetsk airfield. Russia reportedly lifted the aircraft at the airfield into the air afterwards. Residents of 4 settlements located near the airfield were evacuated.

Meanwhile, smoke is rising from the sea near Crimea.

Update from Kursk Oblast - Koronevo direction:

Ukrainian forces are reportedly continuing to push westwards in the direction of their primary target for the western flank of this operation: Koronevo.

In Koronevo itself, while no fighting is being reported inside the town, heavy battles are apparently taking place just outside it as the Russians attempt to prevent the AFU from entering it. As Ukraine controls a section of the tactical heights, operations here will likely be easier than in other places, which is possibly why the Russians are choosing to put up most resistance here.

The fall of Koronevo would allow Ukraine to gain a stronghold to fall back to and entrench in when the Russians ultimately counterattack, and plus Sudzha would strengthen this bridgehead from being just fields and small hamlets.

Meanwhile, slightly further south in the village of Snagost, Ukrainian forces are reportedly opening up a new axis of attack in the form of a spearhead to the settlement likely to support the assaults on Koronevo. Some sources have already reported that Snagost has fallen to the AFU, but this remains unconfirmed.

Colours for the map:
Dark Blue: Confirmed Ukrainian control
Light Blue: Confirmed Ukrainian advances
Green: Likely Ukrainian control

Update from Kursk Oblast - Lgov direction:

Following the claims made by sources of a Ukrainian presence halfway to the town of Lgov, no footage has surfaced indicating that they are true. However we did see geolocated footage indicating that Ukrainian forces advanced by over 6.1km onto the tactical heights and captured the village of Yuzhnyi along the way.

A Ukrainian column attempted to advance further but was likely repelled.

Most sources are now reporting that Russian reinforcements have halted the Ukrainian advance in Kursk Oblast. I expect we will continue to see Ukraine attempt to push, primarily in Sudzha and Korenevo, while Russia launches its counterattacks.

Some of the heaviest fighting in Kursk Oblast is being reported near the village of Martynovka as Ukraine continues to try to bypass the eastern part of Sudzha from the north.

I've got a folder of telegram channels which provide frontline updates, and not one of them has said anything new about anything other than Kursk over the past 24 hours.

So, if you're wondering why I'm only reporting on Kursk today, well it's simply because there is literally no information that I can find on anything else.

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This is what the Ukrainian Kursk offensive looks like on a map of Ukraine. The blue represents confirmed Ukrainian control, and the green represents likely Ukrainian control.

You can see how they were panning out in as many directions as possible to take as much ground as possible. This makes it seem as if they are doing a land grab to get more favorable conditions for any future negotiations.

There are reports coming in that Ukrainian forces seized the village of Olgovka in Kursk Oblast. If true, it would seem that they are trying to widen their spearhead before resuming assaults on Korenevo.

However, I doubt these reports are true as sources such as Suriyak indicate that Ukrainian forces have been pushed away from Korenevo and back to the village of Liubimovka. Most sources are reporting that Ukrainian forces are no longer advancing.

Deepstate is reporting a relatively large Russian advance near Niu-york in the direction of Panteleimonivka.

Explosions in Slovyansk.

The Russians have likely been attacking in the direction of Panteleimonivka for weeks now. I originally thought that their goal was to protect the western flank of the assault in Niu-York, but considering the fact that they are still attacking there after the eastern flank had been completely secured, it makes me wonder why.

In my opinion Russia will start attacks from Keramik in the near future in order to envelope the Ukrainian garrison in Oleksandropil and the groupings in other defensive fortifications. That would line up with the reasoning for attacks on Panteleimonivka.

Ukraine has had quite a bit of time to dig in near Oleksandropil, so it wouldn't make sense for Russia to attack it head on.

Ukrainian forces were geolocated at a position deep inside Kursk Oblast (nearly 26km from the border).

This was likely a single spearhead attack that broke through Russian defences in one direction. Ukrainian forces are likely attempting to expand the flanks of this spearhead with heavy fighting likely ongoing in the villages of Orlovka, Pogrebki and Otradnoye among others.

This is a very flimsy spearhead as the Russians can easily counterattack from the flanks, so unless Ukraine is able to expand it quickly, they will be surrounded.

Nevertheless, it does show that the frontlines remain very fluid in some places even 5 days into the offensive.

Geolocated footage indicates that Ukrainian forces have established a bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Reka Sudzha river in a new area, this time south of Sudzha.

This advance is likely a few days old with the first reports of a semi encirclement of eastern Sudzha coming in around 3 days ago.