Now that Ukraine has achieved significant success in their counterattacks in the Bilozerske-Dobropillya direction, watch out for Pro-Russians suddenly switching up their opinions on this initial Russian breakthrough by claiming that "oh actually, it was just a few DRGs all along!!!" Those will be the same people declaring that this was a collapse (which it initially was).

No. Russia achieved a breakthrough, Ukraine moved in a lot of reinforcements from other areas of the front, counterattacked, and made large gains. While the claims of large groups of Russians being encircled are likely false, Deepstate and Azov were correct in saying that Ukraine was able to significantly advance. I doubted them, and I was wrong.

Now let's see what happens in these areas where Ukrainian reinforcements were pulled from, namely the Kostyantynivka direction. It will be a good case study, as we haven't seen large scale movements from one direction to another since around a year ago in Kursk.

These Ukrainian counterattacks began around 4 days ago btw

The KAB impacted the village of Lisne, outside Kharkiv's city limits.

Over the past 2 hours, 4 Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles have been launched from three directions, targeting:

Oleksandrivka, Donetsk Oblast.
Kharkiv City, Kharkiv Oblast.
Sumy City, Sumy Oblast.
Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

The city of Odesa and the villages of Usatove and Nerubaiske are under a large-scale Russian Geran-2 drone attack. ~26 drones are involved, and several impacts have been recorded. Multiple drones have also been intercepted.

Two Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers have landed at Olenya Airbase, Murmansk Oblast, after redeploying from Ukrainka Airbase, Amur Oblast. This means that there are now 7 Tu-95s stationed at Olenya, all of which are likely equipped with Kh-101 cruise missiles.

Additionally, 2 Tu-95s are stationed at Engels-2 Airbase, Saratov Oblast. These movements plus other information indicates that a large-scale combined missile attack on Ukraine is imminent and possibly could even occur tomorrow.

Russian forces have established control over the point of intersection between Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts, crossing into Dnipropetrovsk Oblast from a new direction.

There are unconfirmed reports stating that Russian forces entered the city limits of Kostyantynivka and have established a foothold in the eastern residential areas. Reports state they came from Predtechyne and that reinforcements are arriving.

Remember - this is one of the areas where significant redeployments occurred to contain and push back on the Russian breakthrough in the Dobropillya-Bilozerske direction.

Associated Press has released the first photo of the Ukrainian "Flamingo" cruise missile, with a claimed range of 3,000km. The missile is currently in serial production under defence company "Fire Point".

The pictured missile is very large, with its warhead probably weighing at least 400kg.

They’re presumably carrying out arrests of suspected terrorists, collaborators, and their relatives, or dismantling any infrastructure that has been detected that could be used by militant cells in the future.

Palestinian sources report that 6 people have been killed (including one child) and 5 others injured in the Al-Saraj Neighborhood of Gaza City and in the Al-Bureij Refugee Camp in Central Gaza, in the extensive Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling.

A new 10-minute-long video shows an aerial view of the Gaza Strip. Entire towns and neighbourhoods have been reduced to rubble.

0:00: The video starts off showing the Gaza Port and what used to be adjacent densely populated neighbourhoods.

0:42: It then pans out to show much of the Shujaiyya, Al-Tuffah, and Zeitoun neighbourhoods completely flattened. This is where a lot of the fighting is ongoing now.

1:03: We then see the former Netzarim Corridor, where only buildings occupied by the IDF remain standing. Everything else was bulldozed.

2:09: Crossing over the Wadi Gaza River, you see the damaged Al-Nuseirat and Bureij Refugee Camps. These are areas in which Hamas maintains a level of civil authority and has regrouped many of their fighters.

3:27: We then move over to the city of Deir Al-Balah, arguably the most "untouched" part of Gaza. This is where many civilians have fled, and while there is obviously a humanitarian crisis, life goes on more normally here than in other places.

4:17: As the plane moves further south, the town of Al-Qarara comes into view, which is now largely flattened due to recent IDF activity.

4:38: The rubble of Khan Younis and then Rafah are also visible in the distance, with the massive expanse of tents and shelters in the Al-Mawasi "humanitarian zone" in the foreground.

Possible Iskander launch from Crimea.

Flying north. This may be Air defence.

Iskander on Zaporizhzhia/Dnipro