The Armed Forces control all the heights around Bakhmut: how the situation on the front has changed (map)
Russian sources point out that the units of the central group of Russian troops began an attempt to their offensive along the Svatove-Kremenne line, while the Armed Forces launched forces to strengthen their positions in this area. The Ukrainian General Staff, meanwhile, states that the Armed Forces are defense and holding a border in this direction. In the north of the Kharkiv region, no changes occurred.
The Ukrainian military continues the counter -offensive in the northern and southern outskirts of Bakhmut. The Russians continue to argue that they seemed to be able to repel the offensive actions of Ukrainian defenders northwest of the Tickyevka, but the spokesman of the Eastern grouping of the troops of Ukraine Colonel Sergei Cherevaty stressed that the Armed Forces control absolutely all the heights around Bakhmut.
One of the military bloggers of the Russian Federation, as the ISW analysts note in their report, says that Ukrainian troops have taken new positions on this front area and advanced to 1. 5 km near Rozdolivka. The General Staff of the Armed Forces noted that they managed to repel attempts by Russian attacks in the area of Grigorivka and Orikhovo-Vasylivka.
Also, on July 11, the assault of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces on the line of Donetsk - Avdiivka began, but in the General Staff they say that they were reflected. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue the counter -offensive in the Berdyansk direction, and Russian military bloggers confirm that Ukrainian defenders have established control of positions near the settlement of Hrushev Balka and continue to attack the positions of the invaders west of Staromaursky.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation also try to take offensive actions near the Blessed, but unsuccessful. The representative of the Tavriya group of the troops of Ukraine Valery Shershen told about the appearance in some areas of the occupied Zaporizhzhya region of Chechen forces "Akhmat", the battalion "Vostok", as well as the detachment "Storm Z". This is due to the pressure of artillery units of the Armed Forces.