Russia-Ukraine Flash Report 17 MAY 2023 12:45 PDT - Southern Flank of Bakhmut Crumbling (Patreon)

Private Military Company Wagner Group released an updated map which confirmed intel we had last night that Ukrainian forces have reached the forest tracks just west of Klishchiivka, taking over the critical high ground over the settlement. It took Wagner weeks to capture this area and over two months to advance from Klishchiivka to the west bank of the Siverskyi Donets-Donbas Canal. Ukraine unrolled this in less than a week and is advancing almost 500 meters a day.

The war map has been updated.

There is additional information in the Klishchiivka Operational Area that we still cannot share.

Ukrainian forces also made advances near the Krasnohorivka Plateau in the Avdiivka Operational Area.