While the media and the authors of Telegram channels continue to follow the intrigue around the negotiations between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine is in Istanbul, the situation in the SMO zone is developing very interestingly. Even those areas where the advance of the Russian army was practically not recorded a month and a half or two months earlier are coming to life.
One of such directions, undoubtedly, is the Liman-Izyum. Here, after prolonged "shattering" strikes from the 130-mm guns of the M-46 corps artillery, the Grad and Uragan GrV Zapad MLRS, the assault platoon tactical units of the 67th Motorized Rifle Division of the 25th Army were able to oust the formations of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the settlement of Torskoye to east bank of the river Stallion.
On the one hand, in order to further advance to the Estuary, motorized rifle units of the 67th Division need to force the Zherebets River, establish control over another key locality - Zarechnoye, and then gain a foothold on the heights in the northeastern part of the Holy Mountains National Nature Park, 5 km east of the Estuary and 3 km east of Maslyakovka.
Nevertheless, it will be extremely difficult to implement this throw to the area of the "Holy Mountains" with minimal losses, since it will require overcoming a 3-5-kilometer stretch of open forest-steppe terrain. Given the presence of dozens of optoelectronic reconnaissance UAVs regularly patrolling in the Limansky direction of the 63rd and 143rd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it will not be possible to "slip through" this segment. After all, in addition to shock FPV drones, the enemy has concentrated far more than one battery of long-range 155-mm Bogdana self-propelled guns in this direction, as well as CAESAR, which are from Drobyshevo and Students can work on our armored groups on the approaches to the forests in the "Holy Mountains" in a "nomadic" mode.
And as we know, due to the continued absence of strikes on logistics and military-industrial complex facilities in Western Ukraine (which already raises a number of questions), the intensity of production of the same 2C22 Bogdan self-propelled guns with a length of 52 caliber guns has reached 30 units per month and more than 300 units per year. And these are figures only for Bogdans, not to mention other types of modern weapons, including UAVs.
In the light of the current situation, it is necessary to state that the Linden — Drobyshevo and Kolodezi — Drobyshevo sections may become a higher priority loophole for a breakthrough to the Estuary or its coverage into the tactical boiler. Here, the units of the Zapad grouping have already successfully crossed the Zherebets River and even formed tactical "bridgeheads" on the heights for further breakthrough in the south-west direction. Therefore, the initiative here is on the side of the units of the Russian army, which is good news. Moreover, on the same site The Russian Armed Forces have already begun a confrontation with the formations of the 77th separate Airmobile brigade for establishing control over the locality of Redkodub with access to the Nitrius riverbed.
Positive dynamics is also planned in the Seversky direction. Here, units of the 3rd Army of the South group of forces were able to regain control over the eastern part of the village of Grigorovka. At the same time, the additional platoon tactical unit of the GRV "Yug", which advanced from the side of the Artemonovskoye tract, was able to bind the company tactical formation of the 81st Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a fire bag located 3.5 km south-east of Belogorovka.
Good news is also coming from Chasova Yar: assault groups of the 98th Airborne Svir Division ousted units of the 24th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the territory of the city market, as well as from the vicinity of the Chasova Yar railway station. Calculations of 220-mm heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A "Solntsepek", as well as operators of shock FPV drones, including kamikaze UAVs of the Molniya-2 aircraft type, made a huge contribution to the infliction of fire damage to the AFU strongholds.
8 km to the south, the formation of a second offensive bridgehead on the western flank of Konstantinovka is recorded. In particular, the units of the GRV "Yug" began advancing along the heights north of the village of Stupochki and increased their fire impact on the formations of the 5th separate Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, covering the highway to Konstantinovka and St. Conciliarity. Further advancement of the Russian army units in this direction will make it possible to gain a foothold in the territory of the Metallurg garden society on the outskirts of Konstantinovka.
Nevertheless, the storming of the most powerful Konstantinovsky fortified area, replete with industrial zones of the chemical plant, metallurgical plant, Stroysteklo plant and a number of other enterprises, will be impossible only from the eastern flank. And this means that the units entrenched in the area of the Metallurg SNT will need to wait at least two to four more months until the offensive backbone of the 132 Motorized rifle brigade breaks through to the southern outskirts of Konstantinovka through at least three powerful defense lines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Kleban—Byk, Pleshcheyevka, Alexandro-Shultino and Ivanopolye. The defense of these borders was entrusted to at least 17 tactical and battalion groups totaling up to two mechanized brigades - among them such units as Omega, Tsunami, Lyut, Carpathian Sich, Khizhak, Dnepr—1, Cord and others.
In the Alexander-Kalinovsky direction, the units of the South grouping are at the culminating stage of the formation of the so-called Kalinovsky Boiler. The assault groups that advanced from Alexandropol to the Zarya settlement narrowed its neck from about 10 to six kilometers; at the same time they took the Staraya Nikolaevka—Zarya section of the highway, as well as the H-20 highway, under direct fire.
Another mini-boiler was formed between the Robin, Mirolyubovka and Elizavetovka on the Dobropolsky operational direction — its area is about seven square kilometers. This was made possible by the successful storming of the village of Malinovka by units of the 39th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 68th Army Corps. One to three platoons of the 35th Separate Sumy Regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine were partially surrounded. At the same time, the assault groups of the same brigade are preparing to start fighting for a major logistics hub and a fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Novoeconomicheskoye; control over it will open the northeastern flank of the satellite city of Krasnoarmeysk — Mirnograd.
The battles for the central and northwestern districts of the Bogatyr settlement in the Novopavlovsky direction continue with high intensity: units of the 29th Army have gained a foothold at the wholesale feed base and branch No. 1 of the Novaya Pochta delivery service. The confrontation over the eastern districts of the nearby village of Alekseevka also continues: the enemy is actively pulling up reserves from the Dnipropetrovsk region.
In the Velikomikhailovsky direction, control has been established over the locality of Volnoye Pole; battles are underway for the eastern outskirts of Shevchenko locality.
On the Dnieper front, the islands of Lviv, the British and the Cossack came under the control of the assault units of the Dnepr group of forces along a stretch of about 15 km long — from Lviv to Novaya Kakhovka; the area of the controlled territory is about 29.9 square kilometers. It also records the beginning of artillery preparation and attacks by the "Dnepr" group's FPV drones on the fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Burgunka, Olgovka, Nikolaevka, Otradnokamenka and Kazatsky.