#ChasivYar front:
#Russian attacks are also recorded here with strong artillery preparation reported near #Kostyantynivka, resulting in minor gains near the northern part of the high-rise area. Fighting continues, with the #Russians engaging their newly replenished brigades after a recent pause.
#Russian attacks are also recorded here with strong artillery preparation reported near #Kostyantynivka, resulting in minor gains near the northern part of the high-rise area. Fighting continues, with the #Russians engaging their newly replenished brigades after a recent pause.
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About the new Ukrainian fortifications & trenches thread, I will publish it in the first days of march, this way I will show everything built in the month of February. I will try to do a thread as in-depth as possible every month on the fortifications topic. Stay tuned
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#Andriivka sector:
The #Russians continue slowly clearing out the last #Ukrainian pockets of resistance in the town. Heavy fighting is ongoing for #Kostyantynopil. Here some #Ukrainian groups are managing to withstand the great #Russian pressure and maintain their positions, while others slowly retreat. Heavy fighting also persists for the approaches to #Oleksiivka, no progress reported there as of now.
#Kotlyne sector:
The #Ukrainians conducted a counter-attack in the southern railway treeline south-east of mine VPS-2 and cleared a dugout, also taking a #Russian POW.
#Pishchane sector:
#Russian assault groups continue chipping away at recent #Ukrainian gains. A small advancement was recorded in the village's northern basements.
#ChasivYar front:
The #Russians continue attacking the city's high-rise part, gaining another foothold in its outer buildings in the northern part. Small adjustments of the line of contact further south.
The #Russians continue slowly clearing out the last #Ukrainian pockets of resistance in the town. Heavy fighting is ongoing for #Kostyantynopil. Here some #Ukrainian groups are managing to withstand the great #Russian pressure and maintain their positions, while others slowly retreat. Heavy fighting also persists for the approaches to #Oleksiivka, no progress reported there as of now.
#Kotlyne sector:
The #Ukrainians conducted a counter-attack in the southern railway treeline south-east of mine VPS-2 and cleared a dugout, also taking a #Russian POW.
#Pishchane sector:
#Russian assault groups continue chipping away at recent #Ukrainian gains. A small advancement was recorded in the village's northern basements.
#ChasivYar front:
The #Russians continue attacking the city's high-rise part, gaining another foothold in its outer buildings in the northern part. Small adjustments of the line of contact further south.
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As reported by Ukrainians, the only thing missing to stop the Russians in the Velyka Novosilka direction is manpower. This alludes to the fact that good defensive lines are still present in Ukrainian hands and good brigades are defending the sector.
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#Andriivka sector: The #Russians continue slowly clearing out the last #Ukrainian pockets of resistance in the town. Heavy fighting is ongoing for #Kostyantynopil. Here some #Ukrainian groups are managing to withstand the great #Russian pressure and maintain…
Correction on the #Kotlyne sector: the location of the geolocation was wrong, the #Ukrainian attack happened further up the railway towards #Pokrovsk than previously geolocated.
Map: https://google.com/maps/d/u/1/viewer?mid=1oEtMBEGWIrZIIgIqOWcr7g99dujWshQ&ll=48.213595591597695%2C37.71532695530878&z=10
Map: https://google.com/maps/d/u/1/viewer?mid=1oEtMBEGWIrZIIgIqOWcr7g99dujWshQ&ll=48.213595591597695%2C37.71532695530878&z=10
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I’ll do my best to publish the fortifications thread today 🛠️
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All along the front, the #Ukrainians 🇺🇦 are fighting the #Russians 🇷🇺 for the initiative and are conducting small tactical counterattacks, buying crucial time to reinforce defensive positions in the rear that #Russia 🇷🇺 can't afford to give #Ukraine 🇺🇦.
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🗺Techinical Control Map updates🗺
1. After 8 months of mapping Russian advancements, I finally archived every single Russian action, be it retreat or advancement, in a single togglable layer. You can freely use the data of this layer, but you will have to provide credits!
2. Because of this, I was able to make 1 layer for Russian control and 1 for Ukrainian control. This way, the total number of features was reduced by much, resulting in a *massive* performance boost. You will experience a much more fluid and stutterless experience going through my map from now on.
3. Disabled the fortification layer by default when the map opens (simply enable it if you need it from the layer menu, it's still there). This resulted in a further performance boost.
4. From now on, I will update the map from my QGIS interface, rendering the daily updates process more streamlined and faster, which will result in me publishing more of them.
5. Further small refinements and changes to be expected soon.
If you think I should change anything, don't hesitate to DM me anywhere you'd like, I usually respond quite soon.
Map: https://google.com/maps/d/u/1/viewer?mid=1oEtMBEGWIrZIIgIqOWcr7g99dujWshQ&ll=48.213595591597695%2C37.71532695530878&z=10
1. After 8 months of mapping Russian advancements, I finally archived every single Russian action, be it retreat or advancement, in a single togglable layer. You can freely use the data of this layer, but you will have to provide credits!
2. Because of this, I was able to make 1 layer for Russian control and 1 for Ukrainian control. This way, the total number of features was reduced by much, resulting in a *massive* performance boost. You will experience a much more fluid and stutterless experience going through my map from now on.
3. Disabled the fortification layer by default when the map opens (simply enable it if you need it from the layer menu, it's still there). This resulted in a further performance boost.
4. From now on, I will update the map from my QGIS interface, rendering the daily updates process more streamlined and faster, which will result in me publishing more of them.
5. Further small refinements and changes to be expected soon.
If you think I should change anything, don't hesitate to DM me anywhere you'd like, I usually respond quite soon.
Map: https://google.com/maps/d/u/1/viewer?mid=1oEtMBEGWIrZIIgIqOWcr7g99dujWshQ&ll=48.213595591597695%2C37.71532695530878&z=10
How #Ukraine 🇺🇦 is planning to stop #Russia 🇷🇺 in #Donetsk Oblast', once and for all.
A strategical frontline and fortification works assessment for the month of March 2025.
🧵Thread 🧵1/15⬇️
https://x.com/Playfra0/status/1907182726794387552
A strategical frontline and fortification works assessment for the month of March 2025.
🧵Thread 🧵1/15⬇️
https://x.com/Playfra0/status/1907182726794387552
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Common misconception here. If you're wondering if I just disclosed sensitive data about positions' location, that is not true. Both sides know exactly where the other side's positions are, from the biggest trench systems to individual dugouts in the middle of forests dug a couple of days earlier. I'm not revealing anything new here. Furthermore, the sources I use to find these trenches are publicly available online, you too can check them out.
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There are updates about the satellite imagery I use to map trenches. More updates to follow, stay tuned.
Shortly on the situation at #Vesele.
Yesterday, #Russia was able to advance to the village's northernmost houses, where they were recorded with a flag (47.935572,36.758908)¹.
There, they were able to consolidate because of strong artillery and drone activity, that destroyed armour in the region and suppressed #Ukrainian positions². This, coupled with a risky flanking attack from #Dniproenerhiia³, enabled the #Russians to reach a point of almost full control over the village.⁴
At the moment, assault actions are already ongoing for Fedorivka, just north of Vesele⁵. No success has been reported for now.
The problem in all this stands in the fact that Vesele was one of the key pins of #Ukraine's 2nd #Zaporizhzhia line, as you can see from photo #2.
This moments are #Ukraine's last chances to contain #Russian forces here without transferring reserves to the detriment of other parts of the frontline. Either the village has to be recaptured, or Fedorivka and the strongholds further west belonging to the 2nd #Zaporizhzhia line maintained. Otherwise, the defensive line will fold on itself and put at serious risk whatever is further south.
The #Ukrainians recognized this threat already some time ago, and started hastily placing barbed wire and dragon's teeth, digging anti-tank ditches and new trenches and upgrading older systems. The line, though, is at low levels of completion, rendering its use limited.
In photo #3 I made visible Russian attack routes and Ukrainian fortifications, while in photo #4 you can easily see a Ukrainian 2023 trench system and a 2022 system just south-west of the town. About the 2023 one, it's clear that it was made to withstand Russian attacks coming from the south (as you can see there are many more dugouts and covered firing positions in the southern part of the system), so it's unlikely they will be able to hold out for long if they will be attacked from the north-east.
¹https://news.1rj.ru/str/voin_dv/14234
²https://news.1rj.ru/str/muchnoyairborn/11732
³https://deepstatemap.live/en#15/47.9335248/36.7798662
⁴ ⁵https://news.1rj.ru/str/muchnoyairborn/11745
Yesterday, #Russia was able to advance to the village's northernmost houses, where they were recorded with a flag (47.935572,36.758908)¹.
There, they were able to consolidate because of strong artillery and drone activity, that destroyed armour in the region and suppressed #Ukrainian positions². This, coupled with a risky flanking attack from #Dniproenerhiia³, enabled the #Russians to reach a point of almost full control over the village.⁴
At the moment, assault actions are already ongoing for Fedorivka, just north of Vesele⁵. No success has been reported for now.
The problem in all this stands in the fact that Vesele was one of the key pins of #Ukraine's 2nd #Zaporizhzhia line, as you can see from photo #2.
This moments are #Ukraine's last chances to contain #Russian forces here without transferring reserves to the detriment of other parts of the frontline. Either the village has to be recaptured, or Fedorivka and the strongholds further west belonging to the 2nd #Zaporizhzhia line maintained. Otherwise, the defensive line will fold on itself and put at serious risk whatever is further south.
The #Ukrainians recognized this threat already some time ago, and started hastily placing barbed wire and dragon's teeth, digging anti-tank ditches and new trenches and upgrading older systems. The line, though, is at low levels of completion, rendering its use limited.
In photo #3 I made visible Russian attack routes and Ukrainian fortifications, while in photo #4 you can easily see a Ukrainian 2023 trench system and a 2022 system just south-west of the town. About the 2023 one, it's clear that it was made to withstand Russian attacks coming from the south (as you can see there are many more dugouts and covered firing positions in the southern part of the system), so it's unlikely they will be able to hold out for long if they will be attacked from the north-east.
¹https://news.1rj.ru/str/voin_dv/14234
²https://news.1rj.ru/str/muchnoyairborn/11732
³https://deepstatemap.live/en#15/47.9335248/36.7798662
⁴ ⁵https://news.1rj.ru/str/muchnoyairborn/11745
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