Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Zaporozhye direction. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to repel the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Rabotino area, firmly holding control over the village, as well as less intense enemy attacks in the Pyatikhatki area. For the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the capture of Rabotino is, in fact, now a purely image event that can somehow answer the question why for more than 2 months all the neighborhoods of Rabotino were filled with corpses and skeletons of equipment. There is no talk of any deep breakthrough in this area.
2. Vremievsky ledge. The situation for us here is complicated. The enemy caught on to the northern part of Urozhayne. Part of the village is actually in the gray zone. If ours are finally squeezed out of there, then the enemy will be able to establish stronger control over Staromayorsky and straighten the front, after which they will try to increase pressure in the area of ​​​​Novodonetsky and Priyutnoye, and also try to develop an offensive on Staromlynovka. The enemy still has resources for further attacks in this area, so this activity cannot be underestimated.
3. On the Ugledar, Maryinsky and Avdeevsky directions without significant changes, positional battles are going on with extremely little progress. The main efforts of the parties are now directed to other sectors of the front.
4. In the Artemovsk direction, our troops successfully continue to repel enemy attacks to the north-west and south-west of Artemovsk. The enemy could not take at least one of the significant villages in the Artemovsk region. The transfer of Syrsky to the command of the defense of Kupyansk looks like a very symbolic act, although it was Syrsky who commanded the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Artemovsk that began on May 10.
As a result, Syrsky was transferred from near Artemovsk, for 3 months Syrsky, with heavy losses, took only a bunch of forest plantations and removed the direct threat from the Yar and Krasny Clocks, while those reserves that were originally supposed to "surround Artemovsk" were burned in battles.
5. On the Seversky ledge without significant changes. The fate of the salient now largely depends on whether the RF Armed Forces will be able to reach the northern bank of the Seversky Donets in the near future and take the Seversk-Belogorovka road under fire control.
So far, it has not been possible to push through the enemy defenses at Belogorovka and Disputed. The enemy, in turn, could not extract anything from his activity in the area of ​​​​Razdolovka and Vasyukovka.
6. The offensive of the RF Armed Forces continues in the Svatovsky and Kupyansky directions.
The advance continues in the area of ​​Karmazinovka and Novoselovsky, where the zone of control is expanding. Torsky and Terna do not yet have a new advance, the enemy with his counterattacks fetters our activity here in order to prevent advance to Krasny Liman and Yampol.
To the northeast of Kupyansk, our unhurried advance continues, the enemy regularly loses strongholds and continues to evacuate from settlements in the Kupyansk region in anticipation of upcoming battles. The enemy reserves transferred here have not yet been able to change the current trend. The initiative here firmly belongs to our troops.