RU POV: Russian advances from Day 883 of the War - Suriyakmaps

Continuing on with developments around Pishchane and Berestove, Russian forces advances north out of the former, capturing the hills overlooking the village, and a small trench system. Russian forces here are looking to increase the buffer around the village, in preparation for an eventual assault west towards the river.

To the southeast, Russian assault forces continued their attacks towards the source/start of the Zherebets river, managed to capture several fields. Ukrainian forces on the eastern side of the river are currently retreating across the 2 remaining crossings, in order to avoid being cut off (pic below).

Russian advances around Prohres continue for another day. Russian forces captured the fields to the south of the village (including the last section of Yevhenivka), following Ukraine's retreat from this area. To the north, Russian forces continued pushing west, cutting off the main road, and closing in on Tymofiivka and Lysychne.

The greatest advances occurred along the railway, with Russia advancing much further along it, and reaching the outskirts of Ivanivka (from the south side), as well as Vesele (from the east side). Suriyak is actually being quite conservative/careful in his reporting, as several other sources (both Russian and Ukrainian) have reported that Russian assault troops have already entered Vesele and captured the eastern part of the village, and have taken several buildings on the southern outskirts of Ivanivka.

Ukrainian forces in this area are still scrambling, trying to re-establish some sort of coherent defensive line. The 31st Mech Brigade (the ones who abandoned Prohres, and then allegedly got encircled then broke out), are operating somewhere north of the railway line, however due to reported high losses, and command breakdown, are unable to establish defensive positions. The 47th Mech Brigade is operating somewhere south of the railway, and is facing similar (but less severe) issues, trying to reorganise their forces and mount a proper defence. A large scale breakthrough is still unlikely, but Russia is still capitalising on the situation and quickly pushing past pre-made defences. To give a crude analogy for the situation, it is like Ukraine is a person who has been shoved over, is moving backwards, stumbling and staggering, but has not fully fallen onto the ground.

Because of the rapid changes in the frontline here, and conflicting reporting on casualties, equipment losses, and positioning, determining which units are based where, as I've done in the past, is quite difficult. I'll try hunt down more information, but for now the general descriptions I've given above will have to do.

Moving back to Krasnogorivka, Russian forces have cleared more of the northeastern side of the town, as Ukraine retreats back across the river. Russia will likely capture most of the town over the next week, but will have trouble crossing the river due to the unfavourable terrain (large marsh, few bridges), and may have to conduct assaults from the east.

The battle for Kostyantynivka has begun, following a large-scale Russian mechanised assault. The situation is currently quite murky, as all the videos of the battle that have been released are heavily-edited, and spliced together with old footage, so its difficult to determine exactly what happened. What has been established at least, is that Russian forces managed to get a small foothold in a couple of buildings on the east side.