Взяття під контроль Новоекономічного - одне з досягнень контрнаступальних дій СОУ під Добропіллям, але вчора противник зумів підтягнути броню в сусідню Малинівку та вирушав колоною в 9 одиниць броні на штурм, саме через це я говорив про ймовірне зупинення наших контратак на даній ділянці.

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Хохлы в Новоэкономичном показали свой флажок в данной точке. Ну, в принципе, тут серая зона, как я писал ранее.

Finally done. 16,500 total trenches. Tomorrow I'll do my best to publish what I was able to learn mapping this.

Today morning, 4 hours of Gerberas and Shaheds on Kyiv

Legendary Kreminna forest and the 16,500 trenches inside: the most precise public mapping ever made of this battlefield.

Interactive map: https://google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=17R-t8S0qF80nenpXYs9ID2x41ZRvYwo&ll=48.990962553402774%2C38.11020900000001&z=12

🧵Gallery thread🧵1/⬇️

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Summing everything, in total the project took about 2 weeks of mapping, or about 30 hours if I hadn't stopped (haven't counted exactly, that's an estimate).

In the project is included just about everything:
- Trenches visible from updated satellite imagery ESRI
- World War 2 trenches and emplacements
- Singular foxholes
- Invisible trench systems under foliage, only visible through Planet imagery
- Dragon's teeth obstacles

The covered area goes from the village of Torske to Kreminna, totaling 175 km².

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This thread won't really be a standard one, but rather some sort of "gallery" with photos and descriptions of different kinds of interesting things I found in the forest and the trenches dug in it.

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Just a tiny bit of history before starting.
The Kreminna forest was first captured by Russian forces in April - May 2022 at the start of the war, but was partially recaptured in early October of the same year after Ukraine's September counteroffensive.

From then on until 2023-2024, fierce fighting raged for every centimeter of the forest, with both sides sending their best and most élite units there.
Because of the importance of the forest (for the Ukrainians it shielded Lyman, for the Russians Kreminna), and because of the numbers involved, both sides dug long trench systems going through all the forest, which created a constant WW1 atmosphere that you can still see today with the help of shelling of a such scale that only tree stumps remained.

In late July the Russians finally found a weak spot, caused by the progressive transferring of the Ukrainian élite units from there to other areas of the front, and by constant Russian pressure, and, having been able to exploit it, forced the Ukrainians, after 4 years, to the extreme outskirts.

Also please remember the extreme ecological damage that this forest suffered, and the thousands of soldiers of both sides whose corpses lie still today in the No Man's Land.