This evening, 2-4 Russian Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles launched from north of Sevastopol, Crimea, impacted a target near Buialyk, Odesa Oblast.

The target was probably Buialyk Airbase.

Coordinates: 46.89328, 30.70156

Russian forces have captured the village of Nykyforivka, Rai-Oleksandrivka direction, Donetsk Oblast.

Pre-war population: ~645.
Total land area: ~2.82 km².

The fighting for Nykyforivka lasted approximately 1 month, 10 days.

Russian forces have captured the village of Lypivka, Rai-Oleksandrivka direction, Donetsk Oblast.

Pre-war population: ~15.
Total land area: ~0.24 km².

The fighting for Lypivka lasted <3 days.

In the Hulyaipole and Pokrovs'ke directions, over the last 10 days, both Russian and Ukrainian forces have advanced, with Ukrainian forces continuing their localised counteroffensive.

In the northeast, after entrenching in the northern part of Ternove and striking practically every single building in the southern half with artillery and FPV drones, Ukrainian forces advanced further south and established full control over the village. From here, they are trying to push west towards Berezove, and south towards Zaporizke.

To the west, the Ukrainians cleared out the remaining Russian strongpoints east and west of Stepove, and began attacking Berezove from the northwest after their previous assaults on the village from the northeast failed. They also improved their positions in Kalynivske, where Russian forces are attempting to counterattack, and captured treeline positions to the west of the village.

Further west, following a Russian withdrawal, Ukrainian forces cleared the remaining part of Verbove and began advancing further south from the tributary of the Yanchur River, through the fields in the direction of the Skotovataya Gulley. Additionally, they improved their positions further in Vyshneve, and the nearby treelines, and began the assault on Pryvillya and Krypychne.

Further west, Russian forces largely completed their withdrawal from the salient in the area of Andriivka, allowing for Ukrainian forces to move in and occupy the villages of Ostapivske and Andriivka, thereby securing the western bank of the Haichur River in this sector. From there, they cleared the village of Nechaivka as well as the treelines to the east, and began fighting for Danylivka and Yehorivka.

To the south, Ukrainian forces continued advancing through the fields towards the Yanchur River, capturing new strongpoints in the treelines in the area of the Dnirpopetrovsk - Zaporizhzhia regional border, from which they are now trying to drive a wedge between Rybne and Zlahoda and reach the western bank of the Yanchur River. They are also trying to penetrate northwest towards Pryvillya, however these attacks have so far been repelled.

Further south, following earlier Ukrainian infiltrations, Russian forces were able to clear a number of treeline positions and strongpoints in and around the Rozdolnenskaya Nature Reserve. On the other hand, Ukrainian forces captured a number of treeline positions northeast of Varvarivka and infiltrated the abandoned village of Dobrovilne, where fighting is ongoing. Russian forces are attempting to counterattack against this newly formed wedge from the fields east of Varvarivka.

+ ~56.05 km² in favour of Ukraine.
+ ~2.77 km² in favour of Russia.

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In the Omelnyk direction, Russian forces continued to advance and have made new progress.

After capturing the southernmost part of Zalizhnychne, Russian forces went on to establish control over the grain elevator and some of the nearby residential streets, which they are now using to infiltrate further west through the fields.

+ ~0.27 km² in favour of Russia.

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Russian forces have captured the village of Pryvillya, Rai-Oleksandrivka direction, Donetsk Oblast (Bakhmut District).

Pre-war population: ~136.
Total land area: ~0.85 km².

The fighting for Pryvillya lasted approximately 2 months.

Russian forces have captured the village of Holubivka, Rai-Oleksandrivka direction, Donetsk Oblast (Bakhmut District).

Pre-war population: ~40.
Total land area: ~0.43 km².

The fighting for Holubivka lasted approximately 10 days.

Russian forces are coming very close to establishing full control over the Bakhmut District of Donetsk Oblast, with only around 74 km² to capture.

Russia may carry out a large-scale, combined missile and drone attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure with Iskander-M ballistic missiles and Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles tonight, from around 12am onwards (Kyiv Time).

This is unconfirmed, however a stockpile of Iskander-Ms still exists despite their heavy usage in their last attack.

If the attack does take place, the highest threat will be to Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhzia Oblasts.

Tu-95MS strategic bombers are also on the move from the far east to Engels-2/Olenya Airbase, where they will be equipped with Kh-101 cruise missiles.

If an attack doesn't take place tonight, the next attack will involve strategic aviation.

Russian Tu-22m3 strategic bombers are currently carrying out a training mission in the area of the Baltic Sea, likely after taking off from Shaykovka Airbase, Kaluga Oblast.

Hopefully the Russian MOD will release a video of it tomorrow, so we can see if they are equipped with Kh-22/32 cruise missiles.

⚡🇺🇸🇬🇧 An additional 6 F-22 departed yesterday night from Langley AFB and deployed to Mildenhall. 6 more are expected today.

This will bring the number of Raptors in the UK to 13.

@wfwitness

⚡🇺🇸🇬🇷🇮🇱 The four Special Operation Forces CV-22B tiltrotor aircrafts recently reported in Crete have entered the Middle-East tonight.

They likely joined the Ovda airbase in southern Israel where the 11 F-22 are already deployed.

@wfwitness