Legends, this has been a long time coming.... One of the most highly requested guests.

Fantastic to catch-up with AMK Mapping today and speak about the situation and future of this war.

Massive thank you to AMK

https://youtu.be/HZy6WdWIEKg

3 Tu-160 strategic bombers are airborne from Engels-2 Airbase, Saratov Oblast, redeploying to Ukrainka Airbase, Amur Oblast. They will be equipped with Kh-101 cruise missiles and should return to Engels-2 some time next week.

Currently, there is the lowest possible number of strategic bombers near Ukraine, with just 1 Tu-160 and 1 Tu-95MS, both currently being used for training purposes.

Also, there are still signs pointing towards a large-scale, combined missile and drone attack taking place soon. Nothing will happen today, but there is an increased threat for this weekend.

* forgot to mention, any attack would not include Kh-101 cruise missiles launched from strategic bombers.

Dude's just accepted the "X city holds guy" title at this point.

You know what, maybe WarMonitor has some intel we don't have. He always seems to make these posts right before the city falls.

Someone inform polymarket betters ASAP

It turns out that the target of the Ukrainian HIMARS attack on Donetsk yesterday was a complex of storage warehouses for Russian Geran-2 drones at Donetsk International Airport. FP-2 drones were also used, which are seen striking the warehouses in this video.

As many as 1,200 drones were stored here, which resulted in massive secondary detonations. The number of destroyed drones is unknown.

Russian forces have captured the village of Uspenivka, Hulyaipole direction, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

Pre-war population: ~1,420.
Total land area: ~5.42 km².

Russian forces have captured the village of Solodke, Hulyaipole direction, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

Pre-war population: ~139.
Total land area: ~1.05 km².

In the Vovchansk direction, Russian forces have continued their offensive on Vovchansk, making new progress in five different areas.

In the west, increased Ukrainian resistance has slowed Russian progress in the forests to a crawl. Russian forces are gradually advancing through the forests, seizing positions one after another, and have managed to enter the outskirts of Prylipka from the east. They also made additional incremental advances northwest of the village of Lyman, while other forces were able to enter the residential part of Synelnykove.

To the east, Russian forces continued pushing through southern Vovchansk and have advanced from the three-story buildings to the small industrial zone on the southern edge of the city, capturing most of it. They also continued pushing east through the low-rise residential areas, where they reached the highway and destroyed bridge over the Vovcha River, and advanced beyond the highway into the denser residential areas of southern Vovchansk.

As a result of these Russian advances, the remaining Ukrainian units stationed in northern Vovchansk withdrew behind the river to prevent being cut off from the rear, officially ending the 18-month-long battles for this part of the city. The withdrawals took place from two small salients of flattened houses in the southeast and east.

Further east, over the past ten days Russian forces have been slowly pushing through the forests east of Tykhe, expanding a buffer zone around the newly recaptured village. They advanced further through the large forest in the north and captured treeline positions to the south. They also established control over some outlying houses of Vovchanski Khutory on the northern bank of the Vovcha River, as well as a nearby forest.

+ ~5.97 km² in favour of Russia.

As everyone focuses on the final battles taking place for Pokrovsk, think I should highlight the sheer intensity of battles ongoing in Rodynske right now, just north of Pokrovsk.

Ukrainian forces who infiltrated the city around six days ago have entrenched and consolidated in a number of houses and high-rise buildings, and the Russians are doing everything to push them back. Both sides are burning each other's positions to the ground and reducing buildings to rubble in order to win this battle, which is by far the most intense fighting for Rodynske so far.

Despite some earlier Russian progress against this fortified area, Ukrainian forces have since managed to push back, with some positions changing hands multiple times. Russian FAB glide-bombs are striking Ukrainian forward deployment points west of the city, while Ukrainian FPV drones, artillery, and glide-bombs continue to cover Russian positions within Rodynske.

The nature of this fighting makes me suspect elite Ukrainian unit(s) are involved in this battle, but this is just a gut feeling for me as there is no evidence to back this up yet.

It seems Ukraine has tried to break through Russian lines here and force them to withdraw from their pincer northwest of Myrnohrad in order to relieve the encircled Ukrainian units, but have since been bogged down due to fierce Russian resistance, while the Russians are taking no chances and are trying to expel them from the city once again.

In the Velykyi Burluk direction, Russian forces continued to advance and have made substantial progress in the direction of the Verkhnya Dvurichkova River.

In the southeast, after capturing the rest of Kamyanka, Russian forces expanded their zone of control west and northwest of the settlement, capturing new positions in the forests and nearby treelines. They also established control over a new forest further southwest.

To the north, the Russians continued pushing south from the international border. They reached the gulley north of Dvorichanske, capturing the forests and treelines there, while other assault groups began bypassing the village from the west, moving down the forested gulley and the treelines west of it.

To the northwest, Russian forces advanced on a wide front from Ambarne to the Odradne area. They captured new treeline positions on the tactical heights southeast of Ambarne in the direction of the Verkhnya Dvurichkova River, and pushed further south down the gulley towards Obukhivka.

+ ~19.21 km² in favour of Russia.

Russian forces have captured the village of Lysivka, Pokrovsk direction, Donetsk Oblast.

Pre-war population: ~799.
Total land area: ~2.71 km².

The battles for this village lasted for approximately 13 months.

In the Kupyansk direction, both Russian and Ukrainian forces have advanced, pushing in different areas outside Kupyansk.

In the north, Russian forces recaptured positions which were previously in the grey zone after a group of Ukrainian soldiers landed in a forest. They also pushed the Ukrainians out of positions in the forests east of Kindrashivka. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces attempted to infiltrate Kindrashivka from the west, where a grey zone had now formed due to a lack of Russian consolidation there.

To the south, over the last few weeks, Ukrainian forces managed to re-establish control over positions in the forested areas northwest and north of Moskovka. They have since advanced down the forested gulley northeast of Moskovka, and attempted to enter northern Kupyansk from here. They also continued attempts at capturing positions in Radkivka, which is now entirely in the grey zone. Fighting is ongoing, with no clear consolidation yet.

In the south, at some point recently, the Ukrainians cleared the forests south of Sobolivka of the remaining Russian DRGs, fully securing the areas north of the highway. Sobolivka itself remains entirely in the grey zone, with both sides entering and clashing in the village.

+ ~3.75 km² in favour of Ukraine.
+ ~1.29 km² in favour of Russia.