Frontline report: Ukraine clears Lyman’s forests with drones, snipers, and US fighters — Russians forced back to Yampil
Once a gray zone, the wooded belt near Lyman is becoming a trap where infiltrators are exposed and picked off.
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ISW: Russian forces try to apply Pokrovsk-style tactics in Siversk and Lyman against Ukraine’s Fortress Belt
The Kremlin is using a mix of weather-aided raids, artillery-coordinated drones, and forward infiltration near key defense axes.
Frontline report: Ukraine’s Serebrianka forest ambush wipes out Russian assault groups before battle even starts
Ukrainian units defending the Lyman axis, at the junction of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, now unleash precision strikes on Russians using predictable forest routes.
Frontline report: Russia deployed North Korean artillery to win the range game—Ukrainian drones turned it into a scrapyard
Ukraine’s drone regiment obliterated four Koksans the moment they rolled into range near Donetsk's Lyman.
Russia masses 90,000 troops near Lyman as both sides claim advances in contested sector
Russian offensive operations near Lyman have slowed since summer 2025, but drone and aerial strikes remain intense, a Ukrainian brigade non-commissioned officer reported.
Ukraine plays deadly whack-a-bridge at Lyman—but Russian engineers are winning
One river is helping to protect a key Ukrainian town. The Russians are building bridges. The Ukrainians are blasting them.
ISW: Ukraine gains ground in Sumy and Donetsk. Russia pushes in Donetsk and Kharkiv. No axis breaks through
New geolocated footage shows fresh movements on multiple fronts, but without strategic impact.
Russian airstrike targets civilians in Yarova, Donetsk Oblast – 24 killed
Civilians targeted while standing in line to receive pensions, with most victims reportedly of retirement age, in what Ukrainian officials describe as a deliberate act of terror.
ISW: Russia launches battlefield propaganda to sell an inevitable victory that doesn’t exist
ISW says Moscow’s inflated stats are part of a coordinated information campaign to manipulate Western perception.
Russia’s bombs hit apartment block in Kramatorsk, kill 9-year-old boy as Moscow keeps targeting civilians
Russia’s latest attacks left at least three civilians dead and 25 injured across Ukraine, with strikes reported in Donetsk, Kherson, Sumy, Odesa, and Kharkiv oblasts.
North Korean forces may soon fight inside Ukraine, says Seoul
South Korea warns Pyongyang is preparing for deployment of forces into Ukrainian territory as early as July.
ISW: Ukrainians advance near Borova and Velyka Novosilka, Russians in Vovchansk and near Pokrovsk and Novopavlivka
A Ukrainian brigade reports it destroyed a Russian platoon in the Lyman direction.
Ukrainian soldiers break the spell: Russian wands, invisibility cloaks fail on Lyman front
From black plastic “invisibility coats” to fear-fueled mind games, Russia is betting on battlefield magic. Ukrainian defenders, grounded in reality, are tearing the illusion apart.
Frontline report: Russia weaponizes drones against its own retreating soldiers in desperate push toward Lyman
Ukrainian intelligence has uncovered Russia's modern version of barrier troops - using drones to execute their own retreating soldiers near Torske, as commanders sacrifice waves of poorly-trained conscripts in an increasingly desperate bid to capture northern Donetsk Oblast.
Russian forces attempt southern bypass of Donetsk’s Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad, Ukrainian military says
Ukrainians conduct operations to destroy Russian infiltrators in the Lyman sector, repelling multiple Russian attempts to capture Chasiv Yar industrial facilities, per reports.
Most intense fighting continues in Pokrovsk and Toretsk areas – National Guard
Russians also have sharply increased activity in Lyman and Kupiansk sectors in recent months.
Frontline report: Tactical missteps doom Russian offensive on Terny
A Russian attempt to capture high ground near Terny in early December collapsed as Ukrainian forces systematically eliminated stranded troops and armored vehicles.
SBU arrests suspected Russian spies, foils sabotage plots in Lyman, Chernihiv, Kirovohrad, Vinnytsia
The security service says it arrested two spies in Lyman and Chernihiv, and five saboteurs in Kirovohrad and Vinnytsia.
Russia is forcing wounded soldiers back into combat amid offensive on city of Lyman
Russia is ramping up its offensive in the strategic city of Lyman in Donetsk, deploying fresh assault units to secure ground in eastern Ukraine.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 855: US considers sending contractors to Ukraine for faster weapons repairs
Meanwhile, Spain has delivered Patriot missiles and Leopard tanks to Kyiv.