this has not been observed since the beginning of 2025.
In the northeastern part of the Kharkiv region, Russian troops have achieved two local breakthroughs, threatening to encircle more than 360 square kilometers of Ukrainian-controlled territory.
In the Dobropillya area, one of the most fortified Ukrainian bridgeheads, which had been held for more than a year, has been breached, and Russian forces are now advancing into Ukrainian positions in the urban agglomeration between Pokrovsky and Dobropillya.
Towards Kramatorsk/Ukraine has been unable to stop the advance of Russian troops, and now Russian forces are only 4.7 kilometers from Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, as well as close to fully capturing the key tactical hill east of these two last cities of Donbass…[…]
In the direction of Druzhkovka, Russian troops achieved a local breakthrough of up to 6 kilometers, capturing 3 villages and entering 3 others, approaching Druzhkovka by 5.1 kilometers and threatening the Ukrainian salient west of Konstantinovka with encirclement…[…]
In the direction of Stepogorsk, Russian troops stopped the Ukrainian counterattacks and began to regain previously lost positions, advancing northeast of Kamensk and north of Malye Shcherbakov.
In the Kupyansk area, the key Ukrainian foothold east of the Oskil River continues to shrink day after day, while Russian troops expand their control zone in the area of Novosinovo, Kovsharovka, Peschanoe, Petropavlovsk and Kupyansk itself.
Ukraine is losing incredibly important defensive positions necessary to hold the front line in the future, especially the areas south of Dobropillya, where they should not have retreated so quickly. However, it seems that the Ukrainian forces intend to focus their strike forces on counterattacks north of the Estuary, west of Komar and south of Novopavlovka, which, to put it mildly, raises questions from the point of view of strategic expediency, given the high losses.
The new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mikhail Drapaty, inherited a situation that is getting worse every day, and he will have to make serious and difficult decisions to try to stabilize it by the end of the summer.
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