Something shifted on the Ukraine conflict front lines this summer.
Throughout July and the first half of August, a series of cascading events signaled a dramatic turn. Most decisive among them was the breach of Ukrainian defenses along the Pokrovsk axis – a rupture so deep, so sudden, and so destabilizing that even Ukrainian sources began calling it a “full-dress rehearsal for the collapse of the front.” It marks the most serious crisis for the Armed Forces of Ukraine since the battles of spring 2022.
But this was not an isolated breakthrough. From the forests near Liman to the urban ruins of Konstantinovka, from the encircled streets of Pokrovsk to the shifting borderlands of the Dnepropetrovsk region, the tempo of the Russian offensive has changed. Advances that once came meter by meter are now measured in kilometers. Positions once fiercely contested now fall empty. And in sector after sector, the Ukrainian command scrambles to plug gaps faster than they appear.
The front is creaking under pressure – and the sound is growing louder.
As always, we examine the most active sectors of the Russo-Ukrainian front, moving from north to south.
...the broader exhaustion of Ukrainian forces across the front has begun to show here as well. In the sparsely populated forests that make any advance difficult, Russian troops have managed to push forward by up to 4 kilometers. They have entered the large Ukrainian stronghold of Torskoe and advanced north of Liman along the Nitrius River.
As the map makes clear, the encirclement of Konstantinovka from three sides is now largely complete. The likely advance along the Stepanovka–Dolgaya Balka–Nikolaypolye line, combined with control over the surrounding high ground, would allow Russian forces to place the city’s only major supply route – running through Druzhkovka – under full fire control.
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