🛡️ Defense

Ukrainian forces in Kurakhove, Donbas sector are holding their position despite being effectively surrounded with only one supply road remaining.

December 10, 2024 Kurakhove, Donetsk Oblast

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Kyiv Post Ukrinform Institute for the Study of War UNIAN

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Source Reports

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Kyiv Post → Source tone: likely

Kurakhove is effectively surrounded save for one supply road and a strip of land about 6km wide and 15km long, but is holding

Ukrinform → Source tone: certain

26 attacks in Lyman sector

Institute for the Study of War → Source tone: certain

Geolocated footage posted on December 9 and 10 indicates that Russian forces advanced westward along Frunze Street in central Toretsk and southeastern Shcherbynivka (west of Toretsk)

UNIAN → Source tone: likely

After capturing Uglodar, Russia was able to advance quickly because Ukraine clearly did not have much defense built behind it.

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