UKRAINE, Jul 2 — Last month, Russian troops seized 566 square kilometers of Ukrainian land, reported DeepState, OSINT war tracker. Most Russian advances were focused on Novopavlivka (29%) and Pokrovsk axes (27%), with active fighting continuing north of Sumy (18%).
In Kharkiv Oblast, Russia seized 19,6 square kilometers in June — all on the Kupiansk axis, said Ruslan Mykula, co-founder of DeepState, to Gwara Media’s journalists.
In the Novopavivka direction, Russian troops are trying to reach Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and the Pokrovsk axis is where they try to occupy the rest of Donetsk Oblast.
On Kupiansk axis, Russians are trying to occupy the rest of Luhansk Oblast — and push deeper into Kharkiv region.
Recently, the Institute for the Study of War’s report said that the geolocation footage showed Russian troops’ advance east of Kupiansk near Ivanivka, but Ukraine’s military denied it.
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