Russia advancing in eastern Ukraine

Russian forces are staging their heaviest assaults near the city of Pokrovsk, threatening a key supply route for Ukrainian troops struggling to fend off Moscow’s invasion


RUSSIA
Kyiv
UKRAINE
300km 185 miles


Pokrovsk: Transport hub lies on highway serving as important supply route to other embattled Ukrainian-held outposts such as Chasiv Yar and Kostiantynivka

Jul 26-28: Russian advance captures villages of Vovche, Lozuvatske, Prohres and Yevgenivka

Russian control before Feb 24, 2022 
Front line on Jan 1, 2024
Russian control and advances to Jun 28, 2024

Lyman 
Slovyansk
LUHANSK OBLAST
Siversk
Bakhmut
Kramatorsk
DONETSK OBLAST
Chasiv Yar
Kostiantynivka
H32 highway
Toretsk
Horlivka
Yenakiieve
Avdiivka
Makiivka
Kurakhove
UKRAINE
Marinka 
Donetsk
Vuhledar
DONETSK OBLAST
Volnovakha
Priyutne
ZAPORIZHYA OBLAST
RUSSIA 
20km 12.5 miles


Sources: Institute for the Study of War, Reuters
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