Explosion in Kharkiv City

Ukrainian forces have recaptured the village of Vesele, Bilozerske direction, Donetsk Oblast.

Pre-war population: ~227.
Total land area: ~0.91km².

Ukrainian forces have recaptured the village of Zolotyi Kolodyaz, Bilozerske direction, Donetsk Oblast.

Pre-war population: ~910.
Total land area: ~2.47 km².

Ukrainian forces have re-established control over the village of Rubizhne, Bilozerske direction, Donetsk Oblast.

Pre-war population: ~105.
Total land area: ~0.47km².

Ukrainian forces have recaptured the village of Vilne, Dobropillya direction, Donetsk Oblast.

Pre-war population: ~71.
Total land area: ~0.30km².

Ukrainian forces have recaptured the village of Ivanivka, Dobropillya direction, Donetsk Oblast.

Pre-war population: ~54.
Total land area: ~0.27km².

Ukrainian forces have recaptured the village of Dorozhnje, Dobropillya direction, Donetsk Oblast.

Pre-war population: ~96.
Total land area: ~0.58km².

In the Dobropillya-Bilozerske direction, both Russian and Ukrainian forces have been advancing, with Ukrainian forces making significant progress towards eliminating the Russian wedge to Zolotyi Kolodyaz.

Ukrainian forces re-established control over the village of Hruzke and the gulley running southwards, before pushing into Vesele from multiple directions, where they recaptured it and the surrounding areas.

To the west, after a failed attempt at entering it, the Ukrainians attacked Zolotyi Kolodyaz from the forests to the west again and broke through to the centre of the village. Fierce fighting ensued for around 24 hours, with the Russians being forced to retreat south due to the loss of Vesele and Hruzke, as well as because of Ukraine's numerical superiority here. Those same forces then pushed south and have reached the northern outskirts of Kucheriv Yar.

Additionally, after days of positional battles, Ukrainian forces pushed east from their positions in Rubizhne, and recaptured the rest of the village, which Russia had to withdraw from due to the loss of Zolotyi Kolodyaz. From there, Ukrainian forces pushed further and captured treeline positions on the nearby tactical heights, and in the gulley leading south from Zolotyi Kolodyaz.

To the south, the Ukrainians pushed outwards from Stepy, establishing a buffer zone in the treelines on the tactical heights there, while other forces moved along the heights to Vilne, which also came under their control.

Furthermore, Ukrainian forces advanced east from Novyi Donbas, and entered the village of Nove Shakhove, capturing the western houses. They were also able to recapture the village of Ivanivka, as well as Dorozhnje, which allowed for them to re-enter Nykanorivka which is now partially in the grey zone.

Russian forces on the other hand, were able to improve their positions west of Shakhove around a week ago, advancing downhill through two parallel gulleys, capturing positions in the forest plantations there.

+ ~60.60km² in favour of Ukraine.
+ ~6.78km² in favour of Russia.

Now that Ukraine has achieved significant success in their counterattacks in the Bilozerske-Dobropillya direction, watch out for Pro-Russians suddenly switching up their opinions on this initial Russian breakthrough by claiming that "oh actually, it was just a few DRGs all along!!!" Those will be the same people declaring that this was a collapse (which it initially was).

No. Russia achieved a breakthrough, Ukraine moved in a lot of reinforcements from other areas of the front, counterattacked, and made large gains. While the claims of large groups of Russians being encircled are likely false, Deepstate and Azov were correct in saying that Ukraine was able to significantly advance. I doubted them, and I was wrong.

Now let's see what happens in these areas where Ukrainian reinforcements were pulled from, namely the Kostyantynivka direction. It will be a good case study, as we haven't seen large scale movements from one direction to another since around a year ago in Kursk.

These Ukrainian counterattacks began around 4 days ago btw

The KAB impacted the village of Lisne, outside Kharkiv's city limits.

Over the past 2 hours, 4 Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles have been launched from three directions, targeting:

Oleksandrivka, Donetsk Oblast.
Kharkiv City, Kharkiv Oblast.
Sumy City, Sumy Oblast.
Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

The city of Odesa and the villages of Usatove and Nerubaiske are under a large-scale Russian Geran-2 drone attack. ~26 drones are involved, and several impacts have been recorded. Multiple drones have also been intercepted.

Two Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers have landed at Olenya Airbase, Murmansk Oblast, after redeploying from Ukrainka Airbase, Amur Oblast. This means that there are now 7 Tu-95s stationed at Olenya, all of which are likely equipped with Kh-101 cruise missiles.

Additionally, 2 Tu-95s are stationed at Engels-2 Airbase, Saratov Oblast. These movements plus other information indicates that a large-scale combined missile attack on Ukraine is imminent and possibly could even occur tomorrow.

Russian forces have established control over the point of intersection between Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts, crossing into Dnipropetrovsk Oblast from a new direction.

There are unconfirmed reports stating that Russian forces entered the city limits of Kostyantynivka and have established a foothold in the eastern residential areas. Reports state they came from Predtechyne and that reinforcements are arriving.

Remember - this is one of the areas where significant redeployments occurred to contain and push back on the Russian breakthrough in the Dobropillya-Bilozerske direction.

Associated Press has released the first photo of the Ukrainian "Flamingo" cruise missile, with a claimed range of 3,000km. The missile is currently in serial production under defence company "Fire Point".

The pictured missile is very large, with its warhead probably weighing at least 400kg.

They’re presumably carrying out arrests of suspected terrorists, collaborators, and their relatives, or dismantling any infrastructure that has been detected that could be used by militant cells in the future.