Two options are emerging: to close a pincer movement in the east with Russian forces south of Donetsk; or to push straight north toward Kramatorsk. Further west, Russian forces are advancing toward Huliapole and Orikhiv but making no progress. Zaporizhzhia remains out of reach.

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The last fighters of Azovstal are under siege, and civilians and the wounded are gradually being evacuated. The southern front between Dnipro and Donbas sees Ukrainian resistance. Despite this, Russia continues its efforts to advance from the breakthrough made ten days ago near Velyka Novosilka.

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8/ In Severodonetsk, the Russians would have seized full control of Rubizhne, the last suburb of the city. Farther south, they would now press toward Lysychansk to close the pincer. Descending southward, the Russians would push toward Orikhove and, of course, Popasna.

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which they have been struggling against for weeks. The same goes for Horlivka and Avdlivka, where the Ukrainians are holding firm. Thus, in the Donbas, the Russians are developing successive and cumulative pincer movements. Their prolonged wear and tear, which has been going on for weeks now, is starting to take its toll.

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This reduction may have contributed to the halt in Ukrainian advances south of Izium, near Kurulka. Further east, Russian forces have captured Yampil and are slowly advancing toward Ozerne. The Russians appear to be aiming to encircle the Ukrainian positions along the Dovhenke-Lyman line.

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Donbass front. In the north, Russian forces have made slow progress without achieving any major breakthroughs. They have expanded their security zone west of Izyum to prevent a flanking counterattack during their advance toward the south and Barvinkove/Kramatorsk.

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Weekly Update #9, dated May 1, 2022. More than nine weeks of war and over four since the start of the second phase. Information is fragmented, and observers have much less ease tracking the progress of operations.

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UPDATE: Press officer said he made a mistake. This particular bridge (Lyman-Rayhorodok) was destroyed by Russian aviation. Empty freight cars on the bridge were blocking it. The area is under Ukrainian control. Ukrainian forces blew up the bridge near Melitopol a few days ago.

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Today, an enemy drone was shot down over the Dnipropetrovsk region, reported the head of the local OVA, Valentyn Reznichenko, on Telegram.

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The head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation reported that work to restore communication in the Kherson and part of the Zaporizhzhia regions is already underway, and communication will be restored. The occupiers damaged fiber-optic trunk lines and disconnected operators' equipment from power supply in these regions.

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