Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] 1. Severodonetsk.
Fighting in the industrial zone of the Azot plant. Enemy attacks in the city were not successful, the residential development of the city is under the control of Russian troops. Nevertheless, the enemy sent reinforcements to the Azot industrial zone to try to tighten the resistance in the city.
Lisichansk is not yet stormed.
2. Svyatogorsk.
The city is practically taken, a sweep is underway. The Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up the bridge across the Seversky Donets, part of the infantry fled by swimming across the river.
The great news arrived late in the evening. The troops crossed the Seversky Donets and liberated the Svyatogorsk Lavra, forming a bridgehead of operational importance.
In the evening, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided not to comment on the collapse of the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Svyatogorsk area. Although we are talking about the loss of the city, and even in the conditions when the RF Armed Forces seized a bridgehead on the other side of the Seversky Donets. And this is a new operating factor.
Zelensky’s gang has already started talking about the imminent “siege of Slavyansk” and the defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the northern bank of the Seversky Donets (de facto, they have already been defeated, the remnants of the Krasny Liman group have already rolled back to the southern bank, leaving the settlements in the area of Krasny Liman and Yampol).
3. Slavyansk.
Taken Ilyichevka. The troops approached Zakotny.
Seversky Donets in the direction of Slavyansk has not yet been forced.
4. Zolotoye.
After the capture of Kamyshevakha, the fighting is moving towards Vrubovka.
Fighting in the Ustinovka area north of Gorskoye.
5. Avdievka.
A small advance north of the village. The enemy was never able to succeed in counterattacks at Novoselka-2.
In the New York area, no change.
Intensive shelling of the cities of the DPR continues - Donetsk, Gorlovka, Makeevka, Yasinovataya.
6. Kharkov.
Positional battles on the line Cossack Lopan-Liptsy-Ternovoe-Rubezhnoye. Both sides are trying to attack in different areas.
7. Soledar.
Fighting in the area of Belogorovka and Berestovoye.
The enemy continues to try to push the RF Armed Forces away from the Artemovsk-Lysichansk highway. The RF Armed Forces maintain fire control over the route.
8. Izyum.
In the area of Bolshaya Kamyshevakha and Kurulka, without major changes.
In the east there is an advance towards Bogorodichnoye and the Valley.
9. Nikolaev.
The enemy stopped large-scale attacks and went on the defensive.
The RF Armed Forces returned the positions at Davydov Brod under control.
10. Marinka, Ugledar, Odessa, Velikaya Novoselovka, Novoluganskoye - no change.