I forgot to post about this, but a very interesting event occurred yesterday.

4 Russian Tu-22m3 strategic bombers launched 8 Kh-22/32 cruise missiles at a target in the village of Prykolotne, Kharkiv Oblast. All missiles impacted something in this village, and several Russian reconnaissance drones were operating in the area at the time. Residents reported hearing very strong explosions that made houses "jump".

Strikes like this with expensive, strategic missiles on frontline targets are extremely rare. Prykolotne is only 16 km from the frontline. Additionally, Ukrainian authorities completely ignored the event, with the Ukrainian Air Force even omitting its existence from their daily report on Russian missile and drone usage.

In the Kupyansk direction, both Russian and Ukrainian forces have advanced.

In the southeast, Russian forces continued their assault operations west of Stepova Novosilka and managed to clear a fortified area south of the railway line. This has since forced the Ukrainians to begin withdrawing from the rest of the large salient southwest of Steopva Novosilka, with Russian forces now re-activating the southern flank of this salient in order to force a further Ukrainian withdrawal west.

To the northwest, the Russians continued advancing along the railway line from the east, capturing new fortified positions and reaching the eastern outskirts of Pischane. This, plus the Russian control over the western streets, forced the last Ukrainian holdouts to withdraw from the eastern part of village, allowing Russia to bring it under their full control.

To the west, Russian forces cleared the section of the railway line southeast of Kurylivka, and began infiltrating the industrial zone on the southern outskirts of the settlement. Other forces are infiltrating west towards Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi and southwest to the northeastern outskirts of Kivsharivka.

To the north, Ukrainian forces counterattacked east of Podoly, clearing a section of the southern part of Petropavlivka and linking up with soldiers entrenched in the eastern streets and the treelines further east. On the other hand, Russian forces continued advancing from the north, where they crossed the tributary of the Hnylytsya River and captured a section of the eastern part of the village, while other assault groups improved their positions in the village centre. They are also continuing their attempts at attacking Ukrainian positions in the southern part of the settlement from the east.

To the west, the Russians cleared the southern part of Holubivka from Ukrainian soldiers, partially reopening supplies to the Russian soldiers in and around the northern outskirts of Kupyansk. This has facilitated intensified infiltrations into northern Kupyansk along new routes, with Russian soldiers entering numerous streets in the northwestern part of the city. At the same time, partially due to Ukrainian redeployments elsewhere, Russian forces managed to re-establish some ground supply lines to the remaining Russian soldiers holding out in central Kupyansk, allowing for infiltrations to take place in the area of the Kupyansk City Central Hospital.

+ ~11.38 km² in favour of Russia.
+ ~2.58 km² in favour of Ukraine.

Interactive map link: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1thW9kqnDOaS2lAepLhLdzSX8Ur9Sc4k&ll=47.972743277699266%2C36.237619512610394&z=10

In the Lyman and Rai-Oleksandrivka directions, both Russian and Ukrainian forces are attacking, with Russian forces making new progress in two different areas.

In the southeast, Russian forces broke through Ukrainian positions northwest of Pazeno, clearing parts of the large forests and capturing positions in some of the forests east of Rai-Oleksandrivka. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces continued counterattacking in Nykoforivka, and re-entered the village of Lypivka.

To the north, the Russians cleared the strongpoints northwest of Riznykivka and captured positions north of Kalenyky, where infiltrations to the forests further west of the village continue. Other assault groups cleared the salient southwest of Riznykivka, capturing new treeline positions there.

Further north, Russian forces intensified their infiltrations in and around Kryva Luka, increasing the grey-zone in the southern part of the village. Ukrainian forces deepened their infiltrations in Yampil, reaching the centre of the village, while the Russians began attempts at dislodging the Ukrainians from the westernmost part of Zakitne. Meanwhile, the Russians deepened their infiltrations south of Lyman, entering the northern part of Brusivka and the forests north of Staryi Karavan.

+ ~8.60 km² in favour of Russia.

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Possible Iskander-M launch from Taganrog, Rostov Oblast.

Iskander on Dnipro

Explosion in Dnipro

The missile was detected late as it as falling on the city. The missile has already impacted.

Smoke rising over Dnipro after the Iskander-M ballistic missile impact.

More from Dnipro

Ukrainian FPV drones are currently attacking valuable Russian targets across Crimea, presumably radars, air defence, and aircraft.

We will probably get another compilation video tomorrow.

The IDF announced that one soldier of the 188th Armoured Brigade was killed, and 3 were others injured in recent fighting in southern Lebanon.

An Israeli soldier posed in front of a Hezbollah memorial in the city centre of Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon, which appears to have largely fallen to the IDF.

Ballistic missile attack on Ukraine right now.

4 Tornado-S rockets impacted a target near Zaporizhzhia city. Voltage drops were recorded.

2 Iskander-M ballistic missiles impacted a target near Synelnykove, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

Additionally, at least 80 Geran-2 drones are detected in Ukrainian airspace right now.

Update: 2 more Tornado-S rockets impacted Zaporizhzhia City. They struck a different target to the first 4.

Reports of Iskanders being used on Zaporizhzhia are all false.

Drones are now attacking Zhytomyr Oblast and Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Previously they attacked targets in Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Odesa Oblasts.

Ukraine and Germany signed a very large defence agreement for drones and air defence worth around 4 Billion Euros

https://t.me/MachineryInfo/927

Btw, for those wondering, there is no threat of Tu-95MS/Tu-160M strategic bomber usage tonight. The usage of Tu-22m3 bombers is not ruled out though.

A much larger attack involving Tu-95MS, Tu-160s, Kalibrs, and other missiles is expected to take place in the coming days.