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Dobropillia
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Blood by drone, then a monowheel and a robot: how Ukrainian Guardsmen got one wounded soldier out
He needed more than a liter of blood at his position before a ground robot could carry him 14 km to safer ground.
A regiment a day: Russia lost 16,130 troops in a week, its worst week of the war by Ukraine’s count
Ukraine’s military says Russian commanders keep sending infantry into frontal assaults, and the daily toll has broken records twice in two weeks.
Ukraine has liberated more territory than Russia has captured since the beginning of fall—a trend that has persisted throughout 2026, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian forces continue to repel Russian assaults and infiltration attempts in Dobropillia, the president said.
“Operation to strike Russian targets deep in swamps continues”: Ukrainian Commander Madiar says his unit hits 7,306 Russian troops in first half of October, up 59% on August
The pace held through weather that usually grounds drones, says Robert “Madiar” Brovdi, who calls the trend the opposite of de-escalation.
Ukraine’s drone pilots hit 76.5% more Russian infantry than two months ago: 2,699 in first five days of October
Commander Robert Brovdi says the pilots count only losses verified in the military's Delta system, so the real toll is higher.
Russia paid with more than 46,000 casualties, and the front moved the other way, ISW finds
September ended with a net Russian territorial loss, the think tank says.
They say Dobropillia is encircled, but they are actually 10+ km away: ISW publishes map disproving Russia’s claim
Russia is using this to divert attention from its setbacks north of Lyman, the think tank says.
Russia spreads false encirclement claims from Dobropillia to Kharkiv — ISW
Russian bloggers claimed they could target Dobropillia’s supply roads. Ukraine said its troops have kept the routes open.
Russia fabricates Dobropillia encirclement to strengthen its case for Kyiv’s capitulation at UN – ISW
Ukrainian officers describe active fighting around the Donetsk Oblast transport hub.
Vivaldi erased Russia’s Lyman pincer. Now Moscow is pushing toward Sloviansk instead
DeepState says Ukraine stopped one Russian approach to its fortified Donetsk cities. Moscow is pressing another.
One pincer stalled a year ago, the other has just been broken near Kostiantynivka—Russia’s ring will not close, Ukrainian commander says
Frontal assaults on fortified cities cost far more men and time than closing a ring behind them would have.
One tracked tank repairs, one marked artillery, one aimed bombs at civilians—all three got 15 years
Ukraine says two of the men came to Russian intelligence's notice through their own comments in chat groups, and the third through a relative working for Moscow's domestic security service.
ISW: Russia’s long push toward Sloviansk gains no ground as Ukraine counterattacks
Its assaults across northern Donetsk Oblast produced no confirmed advances in the newest DC-based think tank's war assessment, an offensive now grinding into its fifth month.
Russia is massing for Dobropillia again using quad bikes and motorcycles, Ukraine’s National Guard says
Defenders of Ukraine's Pokrovsk sector report the enemy clearing mines and flying drones to move small storming groups toward the town north of the ruins of Pokrovsk.
A Russian tank division rolls toward Pokrovsk, adding major manpower to Russia’s eastern push
Can the Ukrainian 7th Rapid Reaction Corps kill enough Russian reinforcements to halt an offensive toward Kramatorsk and Sloviansk?
Ukraine’s 2026 goal: exhaust Russia, deny it breakthroughs, build reserves — top general says
Commander-in-chief Syrskyi said Russia's planned 1 March push on 13 simultaneous directions was thwarted, and Ukraine has since liberated 480 km² on the southern axis.
Russia launched what may be the start of its spring offensive on 17 March — and lost 900 troops in 36 hours without breaking through anywhere along a 100-kilometer front
Russian forces launched multi-sector assaults along the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia fronts on 17–18 March, suffering heavy casualties without…
Russia spent two months advancing in Zaporizhzhia Oblast — Ukraine clawed back up to 9.5 km in a week
Counterattacks pushed Russian forces from over a dozen settlements and disrupted the timeline for a hypothetical Orikhiv-Zaporizhzhia operation, though Mashovets cautions Ukraine lacks the forces for anything beyond tactical stabilization.
Russia likely invented a Ukrainian “counteroffensive” near Zaporizhzhia to cover up its own fake advance reports, ISW says
The think tank assessed that Russian forces overstated their gains near Oleksandrivka and Huliaipole and are now using claims of Ukrainian counterattacks to walk back positions they never actually held.