UKRAINE, BELGOROD OBLAST, Dec. 23 — Geolocated footage published on Dec. 21 on the assessment of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) indicates that Ukrainian forces recently advanced across the international border into a forest area near the Mukhin settlement, Belgorod Oblast.

Mukhin is located southeast of Shebekino and less than one kilometer from the international Russia-Ukraine border.

Assessed Control of Terrain in the Kharkiv Direction
Assessed control of terrain in the Kharkiv direction / Photo: ISW

At the same time, the analysts said that Russian forces recently conducted cross-border attacks against another small rural border village in Kharkiv Oblast.

Geolocated footage published on Dec. 21 shows 15 Russian infantry attacking Ukrainian positions in northern Sotnytskyi Kozachok (northwest of Kharkiv City, about 15 kilometers east of Grayvoron, Belgorod Oblast, and less than half a kilometer from the international border).

A Ukrainian drone unit operating in the border area reported that Ukrainian forces repelled the assault.

Over the past day, Russian forces conducted over 20 attacks in the Kharkiv region. They attacked 16 times near Vovchansk, Prylipka, Dvoichanske, Izbytske, Vilcha, and Obkhivka settlements and six times on the Kupiansk axis.

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