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Multiple Ukrainian drones struck the Rosneft-owned Saratov Oil Refinery overnight, with residents reporting explosions followed by a fire at the facility. The refinery processes up to 7 million metric tons of crude annually and supplies fuel to Russian forces. #Ukraine
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2/where about 100 drones were allegedly shot down over the region during the night.

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Ukrainian MP Anna Skorokhod claimed Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner brought Kyiv worse peace terms after visiting Moscow, including demands for constitutional changes and recognition of territories. She said the information was obtained unofficially and declined to disclose other details. #Ukraine

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️A group of climbers, including servicemen from Russia's Vityaz Special Purpose Center of the National Guard, was caught in an avalanche in the Bezengi Gorge, Kabardino-Balkaria, on September 6. Preliminary information says 13 servicemen were killed and another is in a coma. #Russia

After 4 months of the Lyman counter-attack, Ukraine 3rd Army Corps managed to cut Russian salient north of Lyman and liberate more than 200 km2
 
This is one of the most important victory for Ukraine in 2026 which will delay the offensive on northern Donbas

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Clément Molin @clement_molin
 
After 4 months of the Lyman counter-attack, Ukraine 3rd Army Corps managed to cut Russian salient north of Lyman and liberate more than 200 km2
 
This is one of the most important victory for Ukraine in 2026 which will delay the offensive on northern Donbas
 
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The results of this offensive are significant since this is a very important area in eastern Ukraine. This saliant, was the base for an offensive on Lyman, which could have allowed further offensives to Izium and Sloviansk, threatened the northern supply road to Donbas.
 
This area was already fought for in May 2022, September 2022 and May 2025, when Russia managed, after two years of very big losses to capture some critical Ukrainian positions.

 
 
 
To explain geography, you have 4 rivers. The Krasna river valley, from Svatove to Kreminna, that remained under Russian control. Further west is the Zherebets river. For a long time, Ukraine had control of many positions few kilometers east of it, while it could easily shoot the Russians from the high ground behind the river. It took Russia immense losses (remember all the assaults on Terny...) to take control of the eastern side of the Zherebets and it was very difficult to climb to the western side, since only few dams, in the open, allow passage.
 
After the Zherebets is a high ground, which Russia captured last year and is a strategic location. Further west is the small Nitrius river, which was the next stop line for Ukraine and was barely crossed by infiltrators. The last one is the Oskil/Donets rivers further east or south, that can barely be crossed.
 
 
 
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What really happened based on my information :
 
On May 22nd, a mechanized battalion of the 3rd Assault brigade supported by at least 2 other brigades (60th and 66th) from the 3rd Army Corps launched a large mechanized offensive with an important jamming of Russian drones.
 
The assault began in the forests east of Izium and reached the village of Nove. In total, around 5 Ukrainians vehicles were hit during the assault, mainly by Fiber Optic drones (which shows that only those could fly) and many returned. That day, the Ukrainians managed to entrench in the fortified treeline east of Nove and started their Lyman counter-attack.

 
 
 
The week later, clearing operations started inside Nove, with the Ukrainians having a large manpower advantage due to their mechanized assault.
 
While there was an assault on Nove from the east, the Ukrainians entrenched in 3 additional forests west of Nove, in order to widen the push. On June 1st, Nove was mostly liberated, while the offensive was continuing further south.
 
 
 
 
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This was the first confirmation that the Ukrainians managed to secure all positions west of Nove and Lypove. The same day, I managed to confirm the Ukrainians took control of strategic treelines and forests south of Nove, more than 2 weeks after the initial assault and took control of Katerynivka.
 
 
 
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In August, fighting continued and reached further south, with the first rumours of encirclements of the Russian edge north of Lyman. In a month, around 200 airstrikes have been conducted on a large area, with a high concentration on Ukrainian infiltration routes.  
 
The Ukrainians reached around August 15th the northern edge of Kolodiazi village (3km from there). Then, they continued to push on the flanks to clean Russian presence, as some Russian forces got trapped. Interestingly, during all this period, no Russian mapper ever talked about the difficult situation of the Russian grouping, but all of them updated their maps (Divgen, Radov, Rybar...), showing Nove as contested...

 
 
 
On August 24th, Ukraine launched a second successful mechanized assault, which was wrongly interpreted. It seems it was not aimed at pushing further south, but east, to progress between Katerynivka and Novoliubivka.
 
Here is a map of the situation from a few days ago (OPSEC is still partly ongoing so it's not the current one).
 
Ukraine cut the bulge, but still need to clear Russian presence west of Kolodiazi. There is no way Russian forces that got stuck west retreated and there is 0 proof of Ukrainian control other the farmlands that I kept in grey. Offensive actions continue on the east.
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Cette semaine, j’ai passé une journée dans un camp pour prisonniers de guerre étrangers en Ukraine. Ce que j’y ai trouvé, ce sont des personnes complètement brisées par la vie, qui avaient été contraintes, enrôlées de force et trompées pour combattre dans une guerre étrangère, à des milliers de kilomètres de chez elles.
 
Il y a 30 000 combattants étrangers dans l’armée de Poutine, venant de plus de 130 pays différents. Parmi eux, environ 40 sont des nations africaines.
 
Certains des hommes à qui j’ai parlé m’ont raconté comment on leur avait promis des emplois de chauffeur bien rémunérés à Moscou ou en Europe de l’Est, pour se retrouver ensuite sur les lignes de front en Ukraine.
 
D’autres m’ont dit à quel point l’armée russe était si mal approvisionnée qu’ils étaient forcés de boire de l’eau tirée de flaques boueuses, juste pour avoir quelque chose à boire.
 
Et l’une des pires choses dans leurs histoires, c’est qu’après la guerre, ils n’ont nulle part où aller. Ils ne peuvent pas retourner dans leurs pays d’origine, car beaucoup d’entre eux disent que combattre à l’étranger est illégal – même s’ils y ont été contraints – ; ils ne peuvent pas retourner en Russie, car ils seront exécutés pour désertion – et l’Ukraine ne veut pas qu’ils restent ici.

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On September 8, four Tu-95MS from Olenya Air Base and two Tu-160M from Ukrainka Air Base conducted a combat mission against Ukraine.
 
The Tu-95MSs and Tu-160Ms launched Kh-101 cruise missiles from the airspace over the Leningrad and Smolensk oblasts.