Situation on the Slavyansk & Kramatorsk directions, Donetsk Oblast:Over the last three weeks, Russian forces continued their offensive operations towards Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, making significant advances in several different areas.
In the northeast, Russian forces consolidated in the forests west of Krivaya Luka and gained a foothold in the village of Piskunovka. Other assault groups cleared positions along the southern bank of the Seversky-Donets River and improved their positions in the forests southwest of Krivaya Luka.
To the southwest, the Russians established control over the rest of the large forest north of Ray-Alexandrovka and treeline positions to the west. This has allowed them to intensify their infiltrations into Nikolaevka, which are now taking place into the northern, southern, and eastern streets of the city. Additionally, Russian forces cleared the last remaining Ukrainian positions in Ray-Alexandrovka and began assault operations towards the pumping station along the Seversky-Donets Donbass Canal.
Further southwest, Russian forces captured the village of Yurkovka and cleared the treeline positions to the east and west, and intensified their infiltrations into Orekhovatka. Other assault groups expanded their zone of infiltration further west, entering the forests northwest of Zapovidnoe (Nikonorovka) and pushing further northwest up the highway to Slovyansk. At the same time, Russian forces captured the forest east of Zapovidnoe (Nikonorovka), entered the eastern part of the village and secured the rest of the positions west of the canal to the southeast.
To the south, after capturing the villages of Malinovka and Tikhonovka, Russian forces began advancing further west, capturing new positions along the road to Vasyutinskoe and infiltrating towards Pershomarovka from the south and east. Some small groups of Russian soldiers were also detected southeast of Vasilevskaya Pustoshy. Other assault groups levelled the frontline south of Tikhonovka, improved their positions west of Markovo, and infiltrated the fields west of Fedorovka.
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