The Russian breakthrough north of Pokrovsk, carried out during the first week of August, was stopped. The “rabbit ears” (nickname given because of the form of the breakthrough on the interactive deepstatemap map. Live) were cut by a series of Ukrainian counterattacks, when this “Russian success” could have weighed on the diplomatic process started in Alaska, on August 15, at the summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Crucial for Ukrainian logistics, the T0514 road, which connects Dobropillia to Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, is no longer under the direct fire of Russian infantry groups infiltrated at the northern end of the advance of Moscow troops, 10 kilometers north of its starting point, the village of Novotrotroïske. But a large part of the Ukrainian logistics towards Kramatorsk has already deported to the north, on the T0510 road.
Geolocated images, published on August 14 and 18, show how the Ukrainian armed forces arrested the Russian soldiers along a wooded strip in the southwest of the hamlet of Petrivka (1 kilometer north of the road T0514). Other images, published on August 17 and 18, show the Ukrainians raising the flag in the center of the Zoloty Kolodiaz village, after having dislodged the Russian occupation army of “the left ear”.
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