ISW: Russia’s army can’t sustain multi-pronged offensives due to manpower and equipment strain
A push toward Ukraine’s heavily fortified Fortress Belt would force Moscow to drain even more troops and equipment.
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Russia claims it captured Siversk and portrays its victory as inevitable — but ISW says neither is true (MAPS)
The announcement is part of what ISW calls cognitive warfare — aimed more at perception than actual battlefield control.
Russia fired 241 drones and Kinzhal missiles in overnight assault, killing at least 2 in Ukraine
Energy facilities hit in Poltava Oblast, pregnant woman among eight injured in Donetsk.
ISW: Russia overstates gains to pressure Kyiv and West to hand over Donetsk Oblast
Russian forces have not yet faced heavily fortified cities like Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, ISW notes.
Ukraine fights to prevent logistics collapse in Pokrovsk as Russian artillery, drones, and guided bombs level city’s blocks
Currently, the battle for Pokrovsk remains central to the struggle for the east of Ukraine.
Pokrovsk turns gray: city becomes zone of chaos and shifting control
Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (HUR) units are in the fight, conducting a complex counter-operation personally overseen by HUR chief Kyrylo Budanov.
Russia keeps targeting power grid: Ukraine-controlled part of Donetsk Oblast fully blacked out, outages in three more oblasts
Russian air strikes killed six civilians, including two children, and injured at least 13.
“Fortress in dark”: Moscow’s assault on Sloviansk power plant masks deeper goal
Russia fights against the light. On 30 October, Russian aviation dropped guided bombs on the Sloviansk Thermal Power…
Russia keeps targeting Ukrainian power grid, causing blackout in Donetsk Oblast and outages in Odesa’s Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
Russia launched 118 drones, 103 were downed overnight, Ukrainian Air Force reported. Russian attacks killed four people and injured nine in Donetsk Oblast.
Russians disguised as civilians stormed Yampil — Ukrainian forces turned their ambush into a trap
The 11 Army Corps reported that infiltrators hiding in homes and basements were blocked and neutralized.
Russia launched 60 drones and a missile overnight—Ukraine downed 40, but 12 locations still hit
Air Force says waves of Shaheds and decoys struck targets in three frontline oblasts late on 16 August.
Drones attack refineries in Sloviansk-on-Kuban and Volgograd, fire reported
Russian oil refineries in two regions came under drone attack overnight, with debris from intercepted aircraft damaging a residential building in Volgograd
DeepState: Russians breach near Pokrovsk, cut highway toward Dobropillia in Donetsk Oblast
The OSINT project warns the wedge could endanger Pokrovsk, Myrnohrad, and Kostiantynivka unless Ukrainian reserves regain the roads.
Ukraine is not real estate deal: Ukrainians see Trump’s land concession proposal as betrayal
Kyiv warns the West’s secret talks risk chaining Ukraine’s fate to a handshake with Moscow that will be broken before the ink dries.
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.
Russian attack on Kramatorsk kills family, including grandmother, mother, son
During the same Russian attack, rescues found the body of a security guard in the rubble of the damaged school in Sloviansk, local governor Vadym Filashkin said.
Russia bombards Kramatorsk, Sloviansk, killing at least two civilians
Russian strikes hit a school in Sloviansk and a residential zone in Kramatorsk on Saturday evening, leaving at least two dead, with more casualties possibly still trapped inside damaged properties.
Russian nighttime air attack hits Sloviansk as Ukraine downs all drones, Kh-59 missile
On the night of 17 October, Russian forces attacked Ukraine using a Kh-59 guided air missile, S-300 missiles,…
S-300 missiles hit buildings in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk amid air alert
Following a large-scale air alert announced in all regions of Ukraine except for the western ones, in Sloviansk,…
Deadly Russian missile attack in Slovyansk leaves nine dead and 21 injured
Nine people have been reported dead and four others are still missing following the Russian shelling of a…