🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian Army has captured the village of Novoselovka in the Dnepropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine.

The village is the 7th settlement the Russians have conquered in this oblast and the 6th settlement captured in the past two weeks on the Pokrovskoye-Prosyana front.

The next target for the Russian advance is the larger town of Veliki Mikhailovka.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 The capture of Novoselovka, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, should be worrisome for the Ukrainians

Russia is trying to repeat the success of the breakthrough north of Pokrovsk by attacking in a sector of the front which hasn't been fortified properly by Ukraine.

The Russians had already conquered part of the Zaporozhzhia defensive line in the middle of June 2025 when they reached the town of Komar in the western part of Donetsk Oblast. They haven't exploited this breakthrough because the goal wasn't to push into Dnepropetrovsk, the goal always was conquering the Donetsk and Lugansk Oblasts first and then maybe conquer additional land.

Now that the southern-half of the Donetsk oblast was fully conquered and with the Ukrainians still refusing to make territorial concessions, the Russian command is now beginning to exploit their breakthrough.

There is a narrow 9 km/ 6 mile gap between the hamlet of Lesnoe and the village of Ternovoe which has no fortifications. The trench systems of the Zaporozhzhia defensive line are immediately north of Ternovoe and are facing southward but the Russians are threatening the village from the east.

Novoselovka is right between Lesnoe and Ternovoe. The hamlet of Voronoe was taken two days ago and there have been reports of Russian DRGs in Sosnovka, as far back as two weeks ago.

This gap, opens the road to the city of Pokrovskoye and if Pokrovskoye falls, the Russians have the possibility to envelop the remainder of the Zaporozhzhia line who has been holding since April 2022 with the frontlines virtually unchanged since or push further into central Ukraine and attack towards Pavlograd or push west towards Zaporozhzhia City and even the city of Dnepro/Dnepropetrovsk.

Recent developments on this front say that the Russians captured two more villages in this sector, the village of Komyshuvakha who was at risk of being encircled and even the village of Ternovoe.

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