Ukraine War Map Shows Russia's Offensive Action in Six Directions

Russia is continuing offensive operations in half a dozen directions in Ukraine according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) whose maps show the latest situation on the front line.

The think tank said Tuesday that Russian troops were continuing their push along the Kupyansk-Svatove-Kreminna line in the Luhansk and Kharkiv Oblasts.

The ISW also said that Russian forces were continuing operations near Bakhmut, west and south west of the city of Donetsk, by the border between Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts. They had also made advances near Avdiivka, the city where Moscow is seeking to envelop Ukrainian troops.

The ISW said that Russian forces had continued their operations near Bakhmut without making confirmed advances. The assessment noted Ukraine's claims that its troops had repelled at least 11 of Moscow's assaults southwest of the city, which has been fiercely fought over for months.

In turn, the Russian Ministry of Defense said its forces had repelled four Ukrainian assaults south and southwest of Bakhmut. The ISW said Russian forces had made no confirmed advances around Bakhmut, where they are using "Storm-Z" assault detachments for highly attritional frontal assaults.

However, the think tank did note that Russian forces had made "confirmed gains" near Avdiivka on Tuesday. Geolocated footage showed advances along a section of the railway line north of the the city's coke plant, as well as south of its waste dump.

Military analysts say that Russia is facing high losses during its assault on the city as Moscow's forces seek to gain full control of the two oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk.

One of the ISW's latest maps indicates these advances by the coke plant, which Moscow says is being used by Ukrainian forces as a base and weapons storage facility and is the main focus of Russian attacks. The map also shows advances in Stepove, which is further north.

Another ISW map showed Russian advances southwest of Bakhmut and north of nearby Khromove as well as Ukrainian advances towards Dibrova to the east.

Newsweek has contacted the Russian defense ministry for comment.

Moscow continues to target Ukraine's energy infrastructure using Iranian-made Shahed unmanned aerial vehicles, according to Kyiv.

Ukraine's air force said on Wednesday that in the previous day, it had downed 41 out of 48 drones that had been sent over the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv and Kherson Oblasts.

Ukrainian regional authorities said that Russian attacks using artillery, drones and missiles over the past day had killed four civilians and injured at least 15.

The attacks came on the Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which President Volodymyr Zelensky marked with a public address in which he filmed himself walking through Kyiv and appealed to people "to recall what we could have lost and what we have preserved."

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