🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 Situation on the Slavyansk & Kramatorsk directions, Donetsk Oblast:

Over the last two weeks, Ukrainian forces continued their counterattacks east of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, making significant progress in multiple different areas.

In the north, following earlier Russian attempts at reversing Ukrainian advances east of Nikolaevka, Ukrainian forces once again regained control over the eastern approaches to Nikolaevka and recaptured most of the large forest north of Ray-Alexandrovka. They also managed to clear the forests between Piskunovka and Krivaya Luka from earlier Russian infiltrators and established control over the forests southeast of Piskunovka. Russian forces are attempting to clear the positions in northern Kryvaya Luka previously entered by Ukrainian soldiers who crossed the Seversky Donets River. Despite this, some isolated Russian DRG infiltrations into the vicinity of Nikolaevka continue.

To the southeast, Russian forces recaptured some positions in the treelines east of Ray-Alexandrovka previously infiltrated by Ukrainian soldiers, and expanded their zone of control in the eastern part of the town and in the treelines to the north. Fighting is now ongoing for the central streets of Ray-Alexandrovka, where a large grey-zone remains with each side holding mixed and overlapping positions.

To the southwest, Ukrainian forces cleared the large grey-zone between the villages of Vasilevskaya Pustoshy, Zapovidnoe (formerly knowns as Nikonorovka), Orekhovatka, and Yurkovka, before re-establishing control over Zapovidnoe and advancing further east to the Seversky-Donets Canal. Ukrainian infiltrators are now attempting to cross the canal along the highway towards Dibrova and Minkovka, while simultaneously trying to recapture Yurkovka where a grey-zone remains.

To the south, the Ukrainians cleared the large grey-zone in the fields near Pershomarovka and Vasyutinskoe, recapturing the latter, and re-entering the villages of Malinovka and Tikhonovka. At the same time, a larger scale operation is underway further south, where, after regaining control over the large grey-zone west of Novomarkovo, Ukrainian forces recaptured the strongpoints northwest of the village, which they are now using to accumulate and cross the Seversky-Donets Canal. After crossing this canal, Ukrainian forces are entering Minkovka and the adjacent strongpoints, where several footholds have been established, and are now attempting to advance further east. Some forward Ukrainian infiltrators even managed to carry out a deep infiltration for roughly 12 km northeast through Golubovka towards the outskirts of Nikiforovka. Meanwhile, Russian forces improved their positions slightly through the treelines northwest of Markovo and continued attacking in the area of Fyodorovka.

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