17OCT

Ukraine wins back Lypove and Kolodiazi

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DeepState recorded Ukrainian forces retaking Kolodiazi, Lypove and Zelena Dolyna on 14 October, and the Institute for the Study of War saw Ukrainian gains near Druzhkivka.

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Key takeaway

Ukrainian units are still taking ground back while Russia presses near Sloviansk and Sumy.

DeepState, a Ukrainian open-source mapping project, recorded Ukrainian forces retaking Kolodiazi, Lypove and Zelena Dolyna on 14 October⁠¹. Two days later the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a Washington research group that assesses the front daily, said Ukrainian forces had advanced in the Kostiantynivka-Druzhkivka area⁠². Moscow claims a village there that it calls Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka⁠³.

ISW logged movement both ways. It said Russian forces advanced in northern Sumy region and near Sloviansk, which with Kramatorsk anchors Ukraine's defence of northern Donetsk. It still wrote that the war's fifth year "is not beginning well for Moscow"⁠⁴. That judgement follows a spring in which ISW recorded Russia's first net territorial loss since Ukraine's Kursk incursion.

Deep Analysis

In plain English

The front line in eastern Ukraine shifts every few days. Ukraine took back three villages north of the town of Lyman on 14 October, according to DeepState, a Ukrainian group that maps the fighting. The Institute for the Study of War, a research group in Washington that tracks the war each day, also saw Ukrainian gains near Druzhkivka. It saw Russian gains in the Sumy region and near Sloviansk.

What could happen next?

Meaning
Small Ukrainian recaptures near Lyman and Druzhkivka show the front moving both ways, against the one-way picture in Moscow's daily capture claims.

Sources:DeepState·The Kyiv Post

Mentions:DeepState →Institute for the Study of War →Druzhkivka →Kostiantynivka →Sumy →Sloviansk →Kyiv Post →Russia →Ukraine →Lyman →Kramatorsk →Kursk →Donetsk →Russian forces →Moscow →Washington →

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