Multiple sources reported that Russian forces started offensive operations in another sector of the frontline in the Horlivka sector. Here Russian forces reportedly managed to advance by ~880m and entered the first houses of Niu-york.

They reportedly advanced on both sides of the Kryvyi Torets river, capturing a treeline on the western bank while also capturing another treeline on the eastern bank (southwest of the first houses).

So far, these advances are unconfirmed, and I will wait for geolocations before adding them to my map as usual.

The clashes in Al-Shujaiya are very violent. We haven't seen anything like this since the raids on Jabalia.

Geolocated footage indicates that Russian forces continue to slowly advance on the southern Donetsk front.

Here a Russian mechanised assault consisting of three unknown vehicles managed to advance northwest and take up positions in the low-lying ground. It appears that despite heavy Ukrainian artillery strikes, none of the vehicles were destroyed, although it is possible that the video cut off before any of them were damaged.

The maximum advance of Russian forces was ~1.07km.

(Part 1) Geolocated footage indicates that Ukrainian forces continue to slowly advance in Vovchansk.

Here, Ukrainian infantry launched an assault on Russian positions in School no. 2 and managed to dislodge them from the complex. They also likely managed to clear a row of houses to the west.

It appears that the Ukrainian goal here is to encircle Russian forces inside the Vovchansk Aggregate plant. In my opinion, there are two reasons for doing this, the first being the obvious: force Russian soldiers to surrender and capture them. It looks good in reports and photos, might boost morale and will slightly decrease the invading force in Vovchansk.

(Part 2) The other reason is to support the narrative that Russian forces were encircled in the first place. You might remember that around 2 weeks ago, Ukrainian sources (including Deepstate) reported that Russian forces had been encircled in the aggregate plant and completely cut off from the rest of the city. Some went as far to claim that 200 soldiers were encircled. Footage showing the plant being bombed by JDAMs further corroborated those claims.

However, if you have been looking at the different pieces of footage carefully, you would notice that these claims are false and that Russian forces still maintained a corridor into the plant. It appears that Ukraine wants to actually cut off the Russians in order to support the narrative that they were encircled in the first place just to try and prove everyone wrong.

I could be wrong, but that is just my take. It is entirely possible that the goal is simply to retake territory for PR and morale reasons. I have talked about why I don't think that these counterattacks (especially in Vovchansk) are a good idea, so I won't go into that here.

Missile danger for Sevastopol. Air defence was working near the city. Preliminarily, 2 missiles of an unknown type were shot down.

Explosions were reported in Balaklava district near Sevastopol.

The Kerch bridge was closed again.

MiG-31K airborne. It carries the Kinzhal hypersonic missile.

Air raid alerts in all regions of Ukraine.

The MiG-31K is at the launch lines.

"Attacking the remaining fascist dog missile camp on the outskirts of Nungcho.
The battles for Mogok are fierce"

- Burmese (Myanmar) TG channel

Nungcho is circled in red and Mogok is circled in blue.

Smoke continues to rise over Al-Shejaiya in Gaza city as the IDF continues their ground operations.

The MiG-31K returned to the Savasleyka air base.

Not good if true...

Explosions in Zaporizhzhia following air raid alerts being declared. A threat of ballistic misiles from Taganrog was observed.

The RSF announced the capture of the city of Sinjah. If this is true it would mean that the RSF advanced by over 75km and encircled the key SAF stronghold city of Sennar against the Blue Nile.