Author: David Batashvili

 

This is a special issue of the Rondeli Russian Military Digest dedicated to the Russo-Ukrainian War, composed on the basis of numerous open sources.

 

Kursk Area

During the reported period Ukrainians widened their area of control in Kursk Oblast, completing the capture of Sudzha town with its outskirt settlements Goncharovka, Zaoleshenka, Knyazhii, Mirnyi and Zamost’e, and taking villages Oleshnya, Novoivanovka, Leonidovo, Aleksandriya, Olgovka, Snagost, Loknya, Nikolskii, Malaya Loknya, Kazachya Loknya, Bogdanovka, Kubatkin, Zazulevka, Yuzhnii, Ivashkovskii, Pravda, Kruglik, Cherkasskoe Porechnoe, Kositsa, Russkoe Porechnoe, Gornal, Guevo and Kurilovka.

In the northwestern direction of the Ukrainian advance, fighting was taking place near Snagost, near the entrance of Korenevo, near villages Olgovka and Kremyanoe, and in the area of villages Kruglenkoe and Malaya Loknya.

Ukranians attacked northward, reaching the area of villages of Ivnitsa and Kromskie Byki, were situation was unclear at the time of writing.

They also attacked to the east, reaching village Bolshoe Soldatskoe, were fighting was taking place as well as in village Martynovka and near the eastern outskirts of Sudzha.

 

Kharkiv Area

Fighting in the area continued without major changes.

 

Static shot from the Russo-Ukrainian War interactive map. View of the frontline with the cities of Sumy, Kursk, Belgorod and Kharkiv. Afternoon, 9 August 2024. All information on the maps is approximate.

 

Svatove-Starobilsk Area and Donbas Area – North

Fighting in the areas continued without major changes.

 

Donbas Area – Northeast

North of Rozdolivka, Russians advanced a little, reaching the southeastern outskirts of village Pereizne.

 

Toretsk-Kostyantynivka Area

Russians advanced a little further across the channel in the eastern part of Chasiv Yar.

They also continued to gradually push forward in the Druzhba-Pivnichne-Zalizne urban area east of Toretsk.

Ukrainians counterattacked in the western part of Niu-York, pushing Russians back a little.

 

Donbas Area – Southeast

Russians advanced west of Tymofiivka, within Ivanivka, and west of Vesele.

They also took Serhiivka and likely completed the capture of Zhelanne.

 

Zaporizhzhia Area and Donbas Area – South

Fighting in the areas continued without major changes.

 

Black Sea-Dnipro River Area

Fighting in the area continued without major changes.