The Ukrainian military has been conducting counteroffensive operations in at least three areas of the front in recent days and, as reported, has achieved limited success.
This is reported in the ISW report.
Geolocation footage published on July 15 shows that Ukrainian forces have made limited progress northwest of the village of Staromayorske (9 km south of Velika Novosilka). The Armed Forces also advanced 1 km in an unspecified area in the direction of Berdyansk.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces reported that Ukrainian troops also continued counteroffensive actions in the Melitopol direction. In addition, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Hanna Malyar reported that Ukrainian forces are continuing their offensive in the Bakhmut area and are defending new positions on the flanks of Bakhmut from attacks by Russian ground troops.
Some Russian sources claim that Ukrainian troops have liberated Zaliznianske (13 km north of Bakhmut), part of the heights near Klishchiivka (7 km southwest of Bakhmut) and the fortified area west of Andriivka (10 km south of Bakhmut). According to ISW experts, since the beginning of the summer counteroffensive, from June 4 to July 9, the Armed Forces have liberated about 253 square kilometers of territory.
ISW Key Findings:
- The RF troops conducted offensive operations on the Kupyansk-Svatov border, but they had no confirmed success.
- The occupiers also continued ground attacks, and achieved partial success.
- Ukrainian forces continue to shell Russian rear lines in the occupied part of Luhansk region.
- The Ukrainian Armed Forces continued counteroffensive operations in the Bakhmut area and reportedly advanced.
- Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces continue to operate on the eastern shore of the Kherson region in the area of the Antonivsky bridge.
- Russian officials have accused Ukrainian forces of attempting to strike aerial and naval drones at unspecified targets in the Black Sea near Sevastopol on the night of July 15-16.
It is also known that the Ukrainian military liberated almost 18 square meters from occupation last week. km of territories in the east and south.
Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Malyar announced this in Telegram.
"Over the past week, as a result of offensive actions, a total of almost 18 square kilometers have been liberated. The total area liberated during the offensive is 210.5 square kilometers," she wrote.
Also, in a week, the Armed Forces managed to free 7 square meters. km in the Bakhmut direction, and the occupiers have been actively advancing in the Kupyan direction since the end of the week, intending to push the Armed Forces beyond the Oskil River.
Also, according to Malyar, offensive actions continue in the Bakhmut direction.
"On the southern flank around Bakhmut during the past week, we advanced every day. Over the past week, as a result of the improvement of the operational (tactical) position and alignment of the front line in the Bakhmut direction, the territory of 7 square kilometers has been freed," she said.
Malyar noted that, in general, during the offensive in this direction, the freed area is 31 sq.km.
We will remind that earlier the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhnyi stressed that every freed meter of Ukrainian land is given in blood and called on allies to provide more military support to Ukraine, including F-16 fighter jets.
