⚠️⚠️ As this is from a PRO-RUSSIA source, you must treat this with scepticism. ⚠️⚠️

Via Ukraine News 🇺🇦 (@Ukrainenews@mastodon.social)

According to the latest update map of the Russian war blogger Rybar, the #UkrainianArmy has liberated the entire heights around #Klishchiivka and reached the outskirts of this strategic town of #Bakhmut direction .

He also says Russians in the town can no longer stop Ukrainians

DeepStateMAP (48.5228, 37.9524 @ 2023-07-18 23:22) shows similar FLOT&FEBA.

Source: petrenko_IHS Telegram

Location on DeepStateMAP

16.) It goes without saying that in a war of attrition, more artillery ammunition & hardware is always needed and needs to be steadily supplied. (Western support of Ukraine certainly should continue as there is still the prospect that the counteroffensive will make gains.)

But soldiers fighting on the frontline we spoke to are all too aware that lack of progress is often more due to force employment, poor tactics, lack of coordination btw. units, bureaucratic red tape/infighting, Soviet style thinking etc. & ...Russians putting up stiff resistance.

Archive.org link

Russia has gathered more than 100,000 soldiers of its occupation forces on the Lyman-Kupiansk axis.

Source: Serhii Cherevatyi, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the national 24/7 newscast

Additional information: Russians went on the offensive on the Kupiansk front - Ukrainska Pravda

Archive link

The interview was published by the National Information Portal “Tysk”. Serhii Haraluzhnyi had a conversation with the Switchblade 300 operator.