Dozens of explosions are reported in Haifa and the area.

Geolocated footage indicates that Russian forces have advanced east of Niu-York and have taken up new positions at a crossroad.

The Russians probably advanced from two directions around the reservoirs, with the main assault vector being through the area with the most trees and on the higher ground. From there they seized a small trench fortification at a crossroad, while other forces captured the rest of a treeline northeast of Niu-York.

Ukrainian forces responded by dropping grenades from drones on the new Russian positions, killing and wounding at least 4 soldiers.

Geolocated footage indicates that Russian forces made a marginal advance of ~370m in a westerly direction along a railway line, seizing new positions in the windbreaks.

Ukrainian forces responded by striking a position with an FPV drone, killing one Russian soldier.

Reports from reliable sources indicate that Russian forces have likely advanced in eastern Zaporizhzhia oblast and captured the 2-building "settlement" of Levadne.

If true - considering the way the treelines are situated here, they likely advanced up the treeline which reaches the western part of Levadne, and entered the houses from there while also clearing the forest plantations to the south.

The Russian positions to the south of Levadne, which are on the high ground, also likely played a part as they allowed for better surveillance over Ukrainian positions here.

There are reports of 20 Israeli casualties (KIA & WIA) over the past few hours as a result of ongoing clashes in Ramiah.

Russia has been increasingly targeting the cities of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk in Donetsk Oblast with missiles and KABs, ever since their KABs were fitted with a new modification which allows them to fly for longer distances (at least 82km).

Today the industrial zone of Kramatorsk was struck by three Russian KAB glide bombs, resulting in a fire breaking out. The industrial zone of Kramatorsk has been the most frequent target for Russia lately. Missiles have also hit it in recent days, possibly targeting Ukrainian rear troop concentrations.

What was reportedly a command and control centre in the city of Dopropillya was also struck multiple times over the past few weeks by Russian missiles.

According to Israeli media, at least 25 soldiers were injured in yesterday’s battle on the Lebanese front.

New Israeli casualties are reportedly being evacuated from Gaza via helicopter.

Meanwhile Israeli forces continue to target different areas of the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, missiles and artillery shelling. 4 people are known to have been killed in the past few hours.

Israeli airstrikes have targeted the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone for the second time today.

Hezbollah struck an Israeli military base with a drone in Binyamnina (south of Haifa) around an hour ago. Israeli media reports that 3 soldiers were killed and 60 others wounded in the “mass casualty event”.

Based on eyewitness reports, the drone likely fired a munition before loitering into its target, significantly increasing the casualties.

Fighters from the Al-Qassam brigades fired a TBG shell at a residential building in the Jabalia refugee camp which apparently had dozens of Israeli soldiers inside it. It is reported that there are killed and wounded among them. Shortly afterwards, Israeli sources reported a “difficult security event”.

22 people were killed and 80 injured after Israeli artillery shells struck the "Mufti" school in the Nuseirat refugee camp of the Gaza Strip. Among the dead are reportedly 15 women and children.

Slow news day for Ukraine again. I'll make some maps for the few reported changes later today. I hope you all don't mind the middle east coverage while we wait for news from Ukraine.

I've been struggling to sleep lately and I'm low on motivation, so I think I'm going to take a few days off. I want to make quality news updates, and I think the best way to do that is to take some time off first.

It takes a lot of work to do this, and I've also been working on a side project (which I will talk about when it's ready), so I honestly think that I'm just burned out at this point.

My map will still get updated daily though, just without posts accompanying it, so you can check that if you're interested (link in my pinned tweet).

Thank you all for understanding and apologies for the inconvenience.

I am back from my break. There is a lot of news to cover that I have missed, so I am going to make two threads on twitter: one for The Middle East, and the other for Russia-Ukraine.

Map updates will be made separately from the news threads.

I will link the threads below this post once I start working on them, so check back to this post if you're interested.

Otherwise, normal coverage will continue once I'm all caught up.

Also thank you to those who reached out to me asking if I was alright. I am all good, I forgot to mention in my post explaining my absence that I have always struggled with sleep issues, but they had just randomly got worse. I also don't think it was connected to twitter/telegram or to me feeling the need to keep posting news.

Geolocated footage indicates that Russian forces have captured most, if not all of Maksymilyanivka in the Kurakhove direction.

Following reports of a Russian bridgehead on the southern bank of the river in the northern part of the town, new reports came in of Russian forces advancing through the residential area westwards. The way the reports were shown could indicate that the reports of the Russian bridgehead were false and that this was one large push westwards, similar to the battles of Marinka and Heorhiivka (further east).

The Russian Ministry of Defence and other Russian sources claimed full control over Maksymilyanivka, although this has not been visually confirmed yet.

The fall of Maksymilyanivka would open up the way for direct ground assaults on the eastern outskirts of Kurakhove, which is an important Ukrainian city and logistical hub with large defensive fortifications.

However, in order to maintain large troop concentrations in Maksymilyanivka - depending on the Ukrainian presence to the south, the Russians may need to clear the treelines on the tactical heights south of the town.