9/ On the northern front, towards Kharkov, RU pressure increases. If claims of taking such and such village are questionable, it seems however there is effort: either to pin down the UKR, or to nibble ground, as was done in the SK salient.

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8/ On the Lyman and Izyum side, the Russians did not advance south. However, they reportedly pushed back the Ukrainians who were pressing them west of their FOB. For now, the direct push towards Slaviansk has not been launched.

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7/ South of Popasna, RU claims to have taken Klynove: but this is not the first time they've claimed it. If true, the S road from Bakhmut would be cut and, more importantly, the last remaining units at Luhanske reservoir would lose their support.

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It will take several more days for the RU to take full control of the entire city. The unknown is elsewhere: how many troops have the UKR lost in the matter (both in Severodonetsk and in Zolote or in LK)? How much equipment? The units that managed to

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4/ or even by crossing the Donets north of the city, at Pryvilly, without this crossing being contested this time. Images on Saturday showed RU units in the center of LK. There must still be pockets of UKR resistance but the city has fallen.

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3/ During the week, the Russians have methodically taken control of the newly conquered zones, while pushing the attacks against LK: either directly from the south, or by assaulting the refinery to the west of the city, which controlled the exits,

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2/ With the fall of the Zolote-Hirske stronghold, the Ukrainian (UKR) setup could no longer hold. The city of LK, on the right bank of the Donets, was being attacked from the south. Consequently, the last positions east of the river were abandoned (Severodonetsk, SK).

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I thought so too initially, but they appear to have been standard commercial advertising vans operated by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations: https://
theguardian.com/world/2022/may
/26/russia-uses-orwellian-propaganda-news-vans-in-mariupol
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Underneath #Odesa there are 2,500 km of catacombs, created in the 1800s. They used to serve as hideouts in WWII, and now volunteers are turning them into bomb shelters if Russian attacks on the city intensify.
#Ukraine #UkraineRussianWar

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