Another Iskander was launched, this time in the direction of Myrhorod, Poltava Oblast.

Explosions in Myrhorod.

The issue I have with this claim by the Russian MOD is that Spirne is completely destroyed and likely in the grey zone. Even Russian sources report this. If you look at google maps imagery from 2022, you can see that even back then, not a single building was left standing. Imagine what it must be like now!

From what I've seen, Ukrainian forces finally withdrew from their years old positions inside the village due to them being untenable to hold and most of the settlement has become a contested grey zone. There was a small Russian advance south of Spirne which you may see in the post below which I will report about later.

Overall, Spirne has faced fighting for nearly 2 years now, and as a result has been completely flattened, similar to that of Robotyne. Heavy artillery, drone strikes, etc have had their intended effect once again, and now Ukrainian forces will need to withdraw to the slightly less destroyed village of Ivano-Darivka.

Another sector of the frontline likely soon to be re-activated. Meanwhile Ukraine is wasting all their manpower on Kharkiv Oblast.

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Smoke is rising in occupied Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast. Air defence was previously working over the city. It is currently unknown what caused the smoke.

Missile in the direction of Dnipro.

It's a Kh-59

Explosions in Dnipro

Russian reconnaissance UAV near Odesa. It is possible that there will be a missile strike there from Crimea in the coming hours.

It seems Russia has increased their individual missile strikes significantly over the past few days and decreased their large-scale strikes from the Tu-95's. Not sure why.

(Part 1) Geolocated footage indicates that Ukrainian forces began small-scale coordinated offensive operations in the Lyman direction. There are three advances here so let's break it down:

Firstly, Ukrainian infantry from an Azov brigade advanced east of Terny, recapturing a large number of Russian-held positions in the gulleys and forested areas. They came under heavy Russian artillery shelling, but nevertheless were successful in gaining momentum in the area. They eventually reached stronger Russian positions and were forced to stop. From there, Russian forces launched a series of counterattacks, at least one of which was repelled by Ukrainian forces and caught on video.

The maximum advance of Ukrainian forces was ~1.83km.

(Part 2) Secondly, Ukrainian infantry made a smaller gain just south of the first advance. Not much is known about this advance, but they did come under Russian shelling following the seizure of the positions. The reason behind this advance and the first is likely a reported lack of Russian manpower in the area following redeployments to other more important sectors of the frontline.

The maximum advance of Ukrainian forces was ~1.24km.

And finally, Ukrainian forces supported by a tank made a small advance in the northern part of the Serebryanske forest.

The maximum advance of Ukrainian forces was ~580m.

Overall this is likely a one-off advance for Ukraine in this sector of the frontline and was likely a series of opportunities that Ukraine seized in the moment. It is also noteworthy that Azov which is usually in the hottest parts of the frontlines has been taken to a much quieter part of the front. This front became stable following the fizzling out of the Russian offensive on Terny and the Zherebets river. This further indicates that Azov was very badly mauled in the counterattacks in Avdiivka while the front was collapsing there.

It is also important to note that this recent attack by Ukraine will likely affect Russian morale in this sector of the frontline and is arguably humiliating for the Russian units there considering they lost a large number of vehicles assaulting Terny and lost weeks, maybe even months' worth of progress in 1-2 days.

It's still nothing major for either side, but I am going to keep an eye out on potential Russian counterattacks in the future here.

Update: an advance into central Zhuravka has been visually confirmed. I'm going to sleep now, but I will make a map for it tomorrow.