Overview

• The Ukrainian mapping collective Deepstate marked Saporiske and Nowoheorhijiwka as occupied by Russian troops.
• Ukraine’s Dnipro grouping said its forces halted the push, continue to hold Saporiske and are still fighting for nearby Nowoheorhijiwka.
• The dispatch provides no independent verification of control over either settlement.
• Russian forces have advanced for months in southern Donetsk up to administrative borders, while fortifications have slowed progress farther northeast.
• According to media reports, Vladimir Putin has linked handing over that tract to a potential freeze of the front in other sectors.