Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine. WeeklyHighlights, August 22-28 2022

▪️Russian Armed Forces continue to expand the security zone along the Russian border in Kharkiv Region. Active fighting is taking place near Udy and Sosnivka: Ukrainian sabotage-reconnaissance groups have made repeated attempts to retake the liberated villages.

▪️At the beginning of August, AFU occupied dominant heights to the south of the Brazhkivka-Sulyhivka-Dovhen'ke line. Russian Armed Forces were forced to switch to manoeuvring defence on the front.

The Russian Armed Forces launched simultaneous offensives in two areas, attempting to retake heights and expand their zone of control around Mala Komyshuvakha.

▪️Wagner's PMC assault groups continue to methodically destroy the enemy's firing points in Bakhmut (Artemivsk).

Part of PMC's forces is engaged in mopping up Kodema and Zaitseve from Vesela Dolyna. At the same time, units of LPR People's Militia are trying to advance deeper into Soledar from the Knauf Gips Donbass Factory.

▪️ Russian troops were able to knock AFU out from their strongholds on the outskirts of Pavlivka near Vuhledar.

▪️AFU continue intensive shelling of Europe's largest nuclear power plant and Energodar city. Zaporizhzhya NPP is hit from the opposite bank of Kakhovka Reservoir from Nikopol', Marhanets' and Mar'yevka.

▪️Following the liberation of Blahodatne (Komsomol'ske), Russian units are within five kilometres of a major fortification along the western bank of Bilozerka River near Mykolaiv.