It's very sad to think that this summer might be the last for the cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, before they are both reduced to rubble, just like almost every other city before them.

The last two Ukrainian Donbas cities with life still in them. Druzhkivka, Dobropillya, Bilozerske, Lyman, Kostyantynivka, Pokrovsk, Myrnohrad, Kurakhove, Vuhledar, Marinka, Kranohorivka, Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Toretsk... all gone.

My prayers go out to all civilians still remaining there, and I hope they can all escape the carnage safely.

Essentially, this entire area is dead. And it expands further and further, the more longer-range FPV drones are used.

I feel like this doesn't need to be said, but there are not 4,000 Russians in this salient. Maybe if it was 2023, but not in today's war.

My guess would be no more than 500.

Don't fall for the propaganda accounts.

Aftermath of a Russian FPV drone strike on a Ukrainian locomotive near the city of Marhanets, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

Aftermath of a Russian KAB glide-bomb strike on the city of Slovyansk, Donetsk Oblast, this morning.

A large fire is seen burning at a gas infrastructure facility near Kharkiv City following overnight Russian Geran-2/4 drone strikes.

Russian S-400 surface-to-air missiles near Horlivka are trying to shoot down a Ukrainian tactical aircraft launching glide-bombs at Russian positions west of Kostyantynivka right now.

The interception attempt was unsuccessful. Another Ukrainian aircraft is at it's launch lines, launching glide-bombs at Russian positions in the Bakhmut area.

Second attempt is being made now, west of Kramatorsk.

Approximately this area.

The Ukrainian aircraft are flying away.

This is likely an R-37/77 air-to-air missile launched by a Su-35.