Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Seversk.
After the liberation of Grigorovka, fighting continues in the direction of Serebryanka, the capture of which will allow them to advance to Dronovka and bypass Seversk from the north.
Fighting in the Verkhnekamensky area.
The enemy continues to level the village with artillery, trying to slow down the advance of the RF Armed Forces towards the eastern outskirts of Seversk.
2. Soledar.
After the capture of the Disputable Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, battles began for Ivano-Daryevka in order to further advance to the Seversk-Soledar highway.
The enemy is strengthening the defenses on the line of the settlements of Zvanovka-Razdolovka.
In the area of ​​​​Berestovoye and Belogorovka - positional battles.
To the east of Soledar, the enemy has been driven out of Vladimirovka and is being driven out of Stryapovka.
3. Artemovsk.
Fighting in the Pokrovsky area.
The enemy suffered heavy losses as a result of strikes against concentrations of manpower in Artemovsk and Chasov Yar.
In turn, missile strikes continue deep into the territory of the DPR and LPR against ammunition depots and fuel and lubricants.
In the area of ​​Svetlodarsk, attempts continue to cut off enemy forces that have settled at the Uglegorsk TPP.
The enemy still holds Kodema and Semigorye.
4. Avdievka.
Positional battles near the Avdievka-Konstantinovka highway and in the Avdievka industrial zone.
There is no serious progress towards Krasnogorovka and Ocheretino. On the outskirts of New York - also without significant changes.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to shell Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and other settlements.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the army of the DPR, in turn, are increasingly working on the Avdievka fortified area.
5. Slavyansk.
Fighting in the area of ​​the Valley, Bogorodichny, Sidorovo. The enemy is gradually pushed back to the city.
According to the statements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the advanced positions of the RF Armed Forces are 10 km from the outskirts of the city.
The advance is hampered by forests that cover Slavyansk from the northwest.
The enemy continues to rotate badly battered units in the area of ​​Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.
6. Kharkov.
Positional battles in the direction of Zolochev, Uda, Dementievka, Upper Passages and Upper Saltov.
The enemy shells Cossack Lopan and Tsupovka.
The RF Armed Forces are actively working on targets in Kharkov.
7. Carbon.
Positional battles in the area of ​​Pavlovka and Yegorovka.
In Maryinka and Novomikhailovka - no significant changes.
8. Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole - no significant changes. Fights continue in a positional manner.
In the area of ​​Kamensky, another exchange of bodies of the dead took place - they changed 40 for 40.
The enemy is trying to accumulate forces in Zaporozhye for active operations in the direction of Vasilyevka and Pologi.
9. Nikolaev.
In response to the shelling of Energodar and Novaya Kakhovka, the RF Armed Forces delivered massive strikes on Nikolaev, as well as in the Nikopol and Krivoy Rog directions.
The high activity of artillery and MLRS on both sides hinders active offensive operations and at this stage forms a tendency towards positioning.
But political statements from Kyiv indicate that a possible offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krivoy Rog direction may fit not only into purely military parameters.
Attempts to advance to Kherson will be dictated by the declared political goals and the desire to achieve tactical or even operational success before mid-autumn.
10. Odessa, Izyum, Dzerzhinsk - no significant changes.