Last night, Russian forces attacked an oil base in Izmayil, Kherson Oblast, while Ukrainian troops used drones to strike Russian rear areas and border regions.
In the direction of Pokrovsk (Red Army village) - Myrnohrad, Russian forces have expanded their controlled area northward to the north of Novotroitske.
In the Pokrovsk (Red Army village) - Myrnohrad direction, Russian forces have significantly expanded their control zone along the line of Novotroitske-Popoviyar. Russian突击部队 cleared a series of Ukrainian strongpoints along the route to the approach area of Vladimirovka, and the leading assault group has reached the southern edge of the settlement.
Similarly today, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the liberation of the nearby Pankivka, but there is currently no objective monitoring footage to confirm this. According to existing information, fighting is ongoing in the southern part of the village, and the front-line configuration in this area remains shrouded in "war fog."
The situation around Zolotoye Kolozye remains tense. Videos from the Ukrainian side continue to circulate online, confirming that Russian reconnaissance and sabotage groups have penetrated deeper into Ukrainian military positions than previously estimated. Some groups have reached Petrovka, more than 18 kilometers behind the frontline.
The dates of the videos released by the Ukrainian forces remain questionable. These images are likely to have been shot at the beginning of this month—when Ukrainian forces had not yet timely deployed reserve units such as the National Guard to the area, allowing Russian forces to advance relatively smoothly towards the Ukrainian deep positions.
If the footage is indeed recent, it indicates that the Ukrainian forces have failed to fully block Russian reconnaissance and sabotage groups that have penetrated into their rear areas, and the problem of personnel shortages still exists.
Facing the complex situation in the Zolotoye Kolozye area and the Ukrainian reports about "encircled" reconnaissance and sabotage groups, Russian media have mostly remained silent. Previously, some people in the Russian information space had predicted that the Ukrainian defense east of Myrnohrad would quickly collapse, and Russian forces would enter a vast operational space—none of these judgments took actual combat conditions into account.
As a result, this operation aimed at disrupting Ukraine's transportation lines and achieving local penetration on the Ukrainian frontline has received excessive additional attention.
Ukrainian forces have deployed elite units to close the "breakthrough," and now the Russian forces are forced to engage in fierce fighting to relieve the units that had previously penetrated into the Ukrainian rear. However, such details are currently being avoided by the Russian side.
In the western front, fighting continues in Mayevka and Troystyanova. Ukrainian forces are trying to stabilize the situation and prevent new Russian infantry groups from penetrating into Pokrovsk, but so far, the Ukrainian army has not been able to establish a solid defensive line in the southwest suburbs of the city.
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