Recent reports state that Russian forces have advanced south of Dalnje and captured two more treelines, further threatening the remaining Ukrainian forces in the cauldron to the southeast of this advance with encirclement.

Recent reports state that Russian forces have advanced towards Velyka Novosilka, taking up new treeline positions.

Apparently, Russia was able to advance from Novodonetske, along the southern blank of the Shaitanka river. They were also reportedly able to marginally advance from Shakhtarske, and Yasna Polyana in a westerly direction.

Geolocated footage indicates that Russian forces have advanced in Sontsivka and have reached the southern outskirts of the village.

Initially, Ukraine put up fierce resistance inside the village, with reports of several repelled Russian attacks with small groups of infantry. However, since then, Russia has obviously managed to accumulate enough forces inside the northern houses to make a breakout to the southern part of the settlement.

The footage shows a burning Russian vehicle in the southern agricultural buildings, however reports from Ukrainian sources confirm that those buildings were captured.

Ukraine also responded by launching an airstrike on a Russian position in the central part of the village.

+ ~1.23km² in favour of Russia

The people have spoken 😁

All 3 Tu-95s continue to fly in the direction of the Olenya airbase, Murmansk Oblast.

MiG-31K airborne. It can carry the Kinzhal Hypersonic missile.

Threat of long-range ballistics from Astrakhan oblast too

Ballistic missiles were launched from Astrakhan Oblast

Powerful explosions were reported in Dnipropetrovsk

A 2nd MiG-31K took off

Launch maneuvers were carried out by 6 Tu-95 aircraft

The sounds of explosions in Dnipro after 2 Kinzhals (not Iskanders) slammed into the city

Very strange movements of Russian strategic aircraft are being reported right now

2 launch maneuvers were made, meaning that we could expect 2 waves of Kh-101 missiles. There is still a chance that these were simulations though.

The launches appear to have been carried out in groups of 2 aircraft. 4 aircraft have made launch maneuvers so far, the remaining 2 are flying to the launch lines in the Caspian.

Different sources are saying different things, so it's difficult to determine where the first launches took place.

In fact it's even possible that the first "Kinzhal missiles" were actually Kh-101 cruise missiles. This has happened in the past, where launch maneuvers were not detected, or mixed up with other activity. The MiG-31Ks could've taken off and conducted launch maneuvers at the same time as to confuse Ukrainian air defence crews as they may expect Kinzhals, but instead receive Kh-101s. Then if you mix in potential tests with long-range ballistics from Astrakhan Oblast, you get a lot of confusion. I'd say this scenario is unlikely, but we will see later on once more reliable information is released.

The 2 MiG-31K's landed, presumably at Savasleika airbase. Ukrainian monitoring channels noted that a risk of more take-offs remains.

If the missile launches weren't simulated, then we can expect them to enter the airspace of Ukraine in the next 20 minutes.

The 2 Tu-95s which were flying in the direction of the Caspian Sea landed at Astrakhan Airbase. No launch maneuvers were carried out. You don't often see Tu-95s land here though.