RU POV: Russian advances from Day 934 of the War - Suriyakmaps

Starting off with the Kursk front once again, heavy clashes between the sides are ongoing in multiple areas. In the west, Ukraine continues its flanking attack over the border, opening up an additional area today around Medvezhe. This is another long-abandoned village, like Novyi Put, which Ukraine captured in the attack west of here.

Both Ukrainian mechanised assaults (Tanks, IFVs, APCs), one towards Veseloe and one through Medvezhe, have been repelled so far. Russian units attacked the Ukrainian assault primarily with drones and artillery (Video 1, Video 2, Video 3), with minimal infantry combat occurring in this area so far. Surviving Ukrainian troops have pulled back over the border, and will likely renew continue attempting assaults for some time to come. The greyzone in these areas remains, as Russia has yet to move in after driving Ukraine out.

To the east, heavy clashes continue in Liuimovka and Darino (middle arrows on map), as well as new clashes beginning around Martynovka and Mikhailovka (right arrows on map), as Russia probes for openings in other areas of the front. For all 4 of those settlements, no territorial change could be confirmed yet.

On the southeast side of the front, Russian assault troops drove Ukraine from Borki once again, after Ukraine re-entered the village yesterday. They also recaptured Spalnoe again, which had been in the greyzone following Ukraine pulling out a few days ago. Some of the fighting here can be seen in this video, as well as these 2 videos (here and here) allegedly of some of the Russian soldiers involved in this advance. Given the track record in Borki, Ukraine may very well try capture the village once again, if Russia is unable to consolidate their positions and push them back.

Following on from yesterday’s update, Russian soldiers continued expanding their spearhead towards the Oskil River, capturing more of the fields and treelines along the river, as well as several fields and the forest area around Tabaivka, losing at least 1 vehicle (T-80BVM). The latter advance undoes Ukraine’s counterattack from 2 weeks ago.

Following on from their assault a few days ago, Russian troops have captured the fields and hills around the Osykova River, northeast of Maksymilyanivka. This opens up another route for Russian attacks and reinforcements for Hostre.

In Maksymilyanivka, Russian units became active in the town for the first time in many months, capturing 2 blocks of houses in the centre of the town. Maksymilyanivka has been quiet since mid-July, when Russian troops first broke into the town and captured the eastern third. Due to the focus on Krasnogorivka (northeast) and Kostyantynivka (south) for both sides, the fighting in the town came to an abrupt standstill, as Ukraine and Russia deployed their forces elsewhere, both content to halt attacks until later. Only recently with the Russian advances north of the town around Hostre has Russia begun to move in Maksymilyanivka again. As a reminder, Maksymilyanivka is the final town before the Ukrainian supply hub of Kurakhove.

On the Vuhledar front, following the fall of Vodyane Russian assault groups made large progress in the fields to the north, capturing multiple. Whilst there has yet to be any footage of the actual assaults here, we do have one video of the recovery of a Russian tank disabled during the assaults. With Vodyane lost it became significantly more difficult for Ukraine to contest this area, as resupply and reinforcements were forced to travel a roundabout route through the fields around Yelyzavetivka.

Russia’s strategy here is likely to force Ukraine to abandon Katerynivka (blue dot), but using the Solodka River (under the top arrow, u and S) as a defence barrier to cover their flank. Russian assault groups can travel along the river all the way to Yelyzavetivka, whilst Ukrainian troops cannot counterattack them from the north in Katerynivka due to the minimal number of crossings over the river (pic below).

In a somewhat surprising turn of events, Russian troops have made a small advance south of Kamyanske, on the Zaporizhia front near the Dnieper River. There has been virtually no fighting in this area in well over a year, since Ukraine first recaptured territory here in the beginning of their counteroffensive (June 2023). Given this was not the main target of the counteroffensive, Ukraine only made a small amount of progress, and quickly petered out, with the front line being static ever since.

For now, this advance was likely just an opportunistic advance by a Russia unit that saw an opening, however I will continue to monitor.