Russia-Ukraine Flash Report for 4-29-22 10:00 PDT - Izyum Front (Patreon)
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Going to be a long day for us. NASA FIRMS is making it appear that Yampil' was overrun. We're not seeing anything to indicate beyond the usual Pro-Russian accounts repeating the same claims from days ago. The war maps were updated about 30 minutes ago and didn't show a change in the line of contact.
One thing is for sure, there was significant fighting in Yampil'.
Major fighting today in Krymky. This settlement was under Russian control, so I don't know if this was a Ukrainian counteroffensive or an attempt to push south by Russian forces. We see pics and videos of captured Russian artillery positions with ammo, indicating a fast retreat happened - somewhere. Ukrainian OPSEC is much better than Russian. It is harder to geolocate the content so we don't know where this is. If Russians got pushed back from Krymky that's a pretty big deal.
Rubizhne and Popasna were "quieter" today with no signs of significant artillery fire. We saw a lot of reports indicating yesterday's Russian/Chechen offensive in Rubizhne was a borderline disaster for their forces.
Both sides are suffering very heavy losses of men and equipment. The fighting south of Izyum and around Severodonetsk hasn't been seen in Europe since World War II.