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Nice hit on Taganrog last night.
2 anti-ship planes (Tu-142), a shadow fleet tanker, and a fuel base.

UAF middle-strike drones have been hitting fuel trucks in the outskirts of Simferopol' (capital of Crimea), as well as on the Alchevs'k- Debal'tseve road (Luhans'k Oblast). Previously, "Azov" showed its drones targeting trucks in Novoazovs'k (pre-war border between Ukraine and muscovy on the Azov Sea coast).

Additionally, DeepState is showing Ukrainian advance in the SE of Dnipropetrovs'k OIblast, where it wdges between Zaporizhya and Donet'sk Oblasts. A minor push so far, but the intent is obviously to disrupt the flank of the group that's trying to consolidate in Hulyaipole and push further W towards Orikhiv.

Meanwhile, the orcs are slowly inching into the outer outskirts of Konstyantynivka, trying to infiltrate in sufficient numbers to develop a constant stable presence in the built-up areas.

Might be time to declare the Danube Delta a no-fly zone, I'd think.

Cause, on 26 May 2026 - 07:06 PM, said:

definitely crazy.

They've painted themselves in a propaganda corner where they can't claim "victory" without the rest of Donbas; and the US is rapidly losing leverage to force Ukraine to cede it.

Breakthrough towards Vasylivka would put a lot of pressure on the primary supply road towards Enerhodar, and the entire riverside of the L Bank Dnipro down to Nova Kakhovka. Though it's 10 km from Kam'yans'ke to Vasylivka, and it's a spot between two rivers (Yanchekrak to the N, Karachekrak to the S), so it'd be a risky salient, unless they can extend the advance along the river lines down SE towards Nesteryanka.

It's also worth noting that the main trench of the Surovikin Line is behind Vasylivka, enveloping it from the W and S, and then pulling E across the highways S to Melitopol' and SE towards Tokmak (which was supposedly the initial goal of the 2023 UAF push). So even if the UAF is able to enter Vasylivka chasing the scattered orcs, that won't amount to a "massive breakthrough" and "front collapse", although it would certainly make their ambitions to assault Zaporizhya directly far less likely- provided the salient can be expanded further E, so it's not just a thin strip along the river bank.

Major hit on Novorossiysk again. They hit the pumping/storage station outside the city, the oil port, as well as several ships again.

simultaneously, UAF struck the Metafrax chemical plant in Perm' Krai. To make sure people understand: Perm is upstream of the Kama (the big Volga tributary), and is basically Northern Urals (although formally it's still part of the Volga federal district)

DeepState finally updated its map to remove the red blotch in the centre of Kup'yans'k. Although the orcs are still trying to infiltrate the L bank outskirts from the N, and pushing into R bank from the E, the city is essentially cleared.


Tentative agreement's been announced to evacuate the remaining 6k people from the riverfront settlements in occupied kherson oblast'- Oleshky, Hola Prystan and Old and New Zbur'yivkas were all essentially cut off from amenities and regular food supplies due to being frontline cities; so Ukraine is arranging with the IRC to have them evacuated, and then transferred to Ukraine. Hopefully this happens, and the orcs don't "detain" the civilians along the way.

Talks are also happening on next phase of the Victory Day prisoner swap arrangement.

Z-heads are whining that UAF is gradually regaining initiative in the S. UAF observation posts were spotted S of Mala Tokmachka- and this complicates the orcs' attempts to push into the long (almost 10 km across) settlement that guards the SE approaches towards Orikhiv. Ukrainian drones are also laying mines on roads approaching Enerhodar, and other notable cities. I don't expect an major assault attempts unless the orc forces are completely attrited here, but so far the momentum's slightly positive.