Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol.
The remnants of the enemy grouping are blocked at Azovstal. The territory of the plant is subjected to artillery strikes. Attempts by individual groups to infiltrate from Azovstal are being suppressed.
2. Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole without changes. Fighting is going on east of Gulyaipole. The grouping of the RF Armed Forces is probing the enemy defenses to the west of Velikaya Novoselka.
3. Ugledar.
On the Novomikhailovka-Ugledar-Velikaya Novoselka line, the enemy is holding positions.
4. Marinka.
There is no serious progress in the village. The front line, as before, lies in the area of ​​the waste heap.
5. Nikolaev.
Fighting in the villages between Nikolaev and Kherson. The enemy suffers serious losses, the grouping in Nikolaev is subjected to heavy artillery and MLRS attacks. The front line has shifted somewhat in the direction of Nikolaev, which the enemy also recognizes. Attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to move from the Novorontsovka area were unsuccessful.
6. Avdievka.
Without changes. Fighting continues in the area of ​​Novobakhmutovka and Novoselki-2. There were also battles at Troitsky.
7. LPR.
A small advance of the LPR in Popasnaya. There are reports of the capture of Novotoshkovsky. The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is considering options with a withdrawal from Severodonetsk to Lysychansk in order to avoid fragmentation of the group.
8. Izyum.
There is no progress in the direction of Barvenkovo ​​yet. In the direction of Slavyansk, the troops approached the Red Liman. Taken Lozovoe. The grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration is subjected to severe blows.
9. Kharkov.
An attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to be active north of Kharkov, not far from the Goptovka border checkpoint, ended in serious losses for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are trying to distract the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from further accumulation of forces in the Izyum direction. Attacks on the flank of the Izyum group are dedicated to the same goal.
10. Odessa.
Without changes. The enemy is accumulating forces for the defense of the city, plus using the supply of weapons from Romania and fuel from Moldova to improve the supply of troops in the Nikolaev and Krivoy Rog directions.