snapshot
130 square kilometers recaptured; Rivnopil, 9th village will be dissolved; Bridgehead over the Dnipro River captured; strategic channel captured outside of Bakhmut; And; The positions occupied near Mariinka were recaptured after nine years of Russian occupation.
analysis
President Zelenskyy called it “a happy day” and recognized Ukraine’s progress on all fronts.
Zone A. TO518 / Mokri-Yaly river axis – border of Zaporizhia and Donetsk regions
· “The defense forces have regained Rivnopil under our control. We’re making progress,” Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar wrote on Telegram. Rivnopil would be the ninth village recaptured by Ukrainian forces during the offensive, increasing the recaptured area to 130 square kilometers.
· Pro-Russian sources confirmed the loss of Rivnopil and an unsuccessful Russian counterattack at Novodarivka.
Zone B. West Zaporizhia
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Russian forces repelled Ukrainian ground attacks near Robotyne, south of Orichiv in the western Zaporizhia region, while Ukrainian military spokesmen said Ukrainian forces had advanced an unspecified one-and-a-half kilometers into the zone.
· Pro-Russian sources said Ukrainian troops would attack Robotne, Kamensky, Zherebyanok and Nesteryanka and said the situation will be “difficult”.
Zone C. Bachmut
· Over the weekend, Ukrainian infantry units advanced between 500 and 1,000 meters from the town of Bakhmut.
· The commander of the Eastern Ukrainian Group of Armed Forces, Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, stated that the Ukrainian armed forces had been evacuated a strategic Russian bridgehead across the Seversky-Donets-Donbass Canal about 8 kilometers from Bakhmut.
Other zones and activities including Kherson, Avdiivka and Mariinka.
· Ukrainian forces have crossed the Dnipro River and recaptured areas on the left bank of the Kherson region. According to pro-Russian Telegram channels and geolocated data cited by ISW, Ukrainian troops captured the village of Dachi opposite the city of Kherson and near the destroyed Antonovsky bridge. They had dug in and tried to establish a bridgehead, the transmitters said.
· According to Serhiy Khlan, a member of the Kherson regional council, Russian troops are moving equipment from the left bank of the Kherson region to Crimea as looting in the occupied territories has increased.
· Ukrainian troops advanced half a kilometer and captured “several Russian positions” outside the village of Krasnohorivkanear Mariinka in the Donetsk region, which has been under Russian control for nine years, said Valeriy Shershen, press secretary for Ukraine’s Eastern Command.
· According to Ruslan Muzychuk, spokesman for the Ukrainian National Guard, the number of Russian attacks on Ukrainian National Guard positions on the Kupiansk and Lyman fronts has more than doubled in the past week. However, Ukrainian troops reportedly recaptured lost positions in the Serebianka Forest.
· Russian troops opened fire on the village of Novyi Komar in Volnovakha district of Donetsk region. According to the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office, one civilian was killed and one injured.
· According to ISW, Russian forces conducted limited ground attacks northwest of Svatove and south of Kreminna.
· According to ISW, Russian forces conducted limited ground attacks along the Avdiivka-Donetsk-City line.