⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸 The IDF announced the designation of a humanitarian area in Khan Yunis and urged citizens to enter the area as ground operations expand in Gaza City under Operation Gideon’s Chariots II.

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This area has limited infrastructure and is not very big, but interestingly it includes most of Khan Younis Refugee Camp in eastern Khan Younis City, which was previously under a mandatory evacuation order. Khan Younis camp has its own dedicated Hamas battalion under the Khan Younis Brigade, and is the source of most attacks on Israeli forces in Khan Younis.

Ukrainian sources are reporting that the Slovyansk - Izyum Highway is under Russian fire control from FPV drones. Currently the highway is around 19 km from the closest Russian controlled territory.

Over the past few weeks, Russian forces have been steadily advancing south towards the city of Lyman and the Oskil River.

Russian forces have captured the village of Oleksandro-Shultyne, Kostyantynivka direction, Donetsk Oblast.

Pre-war population: ~195.
Total land area: ~1.39 km².

MiG-31K airborne. Threat of Kinzhal launches. Sirens are sounding in all regions of Ukraine.

Likely training

Russian forces have captured the village of Yunakivka, Yunakivka direction, Sumy Oblast.

Pre-war population: ~1,740.
Total land area: ~6.97 km².

The battles for Yunakivka lasted approximately 103 days.

Slovyansk direction, useful information. Active Russian artillery guns firing from the hill at (red highlighted area east of Zaliznyanske), general coordinates 48.693601, 37.967425, be careful. They are using "diagonal" firing, that is, also targeting objectives not on the first line.
30th Mechanized is firmly entrenched in the Orikhovo Vasylivka area, thwarts Russian attempts to advance from Hryhorivka. Focus is now on Vasyukivka, attacks are to be expected along the so-called "old road" that goes to Slovyansk, as M-03 highway is firmly defended by Ukrainians.
Russian fiber optic FPV unit was transferred here recently, their fiber optics fly 12km up to the yellow mark turn of M-03.

Massive Geran-2 drone attack on Ukraine tonight. Hundreds of drones attacked targets in Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Kyiv, Kremenchuk, Odesa, etc. 6 Iskander-M ballistic missiles were also used on Kryvyi Rih earlier.

More details later once the attack is over and some information can be clarified.

Two short range rockets (likely from Al-Qassam) were launched from the central Gaza Strip, targeting the Israeli city of Netivot. The IDF stated that one rocket was intercepted and another fell in an “open area”.

According to the Ukrainian General Staff, last night's Russian drone attack on Ukraine was the largest since the beginning of the war. They claimed that 805 Geran-2/Gerbera drones were launched. This is corroborated by the massive number of targets that were hit in several different regions.

Interestingly, this attack was not accompanied by Kh-101 cruise missiles. This reflects the continued trend of Kh-101s being used less and less, as they likely get phased out of this war in favour of Iskander-K, Kh-69, and Kalibr cruise missiles.