💥 Attack

Ukrainian forces counterattacked near waste heaps at Tsentralna Mine in central Toretsk; the area is contested as gray zones.

Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast
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Ukrainian counterattack near Tsentralna Mine in Toretsk; area is contested gray zone

Ukrinform → Source tone: certain

Over the past day, Russian troops fired ten times on settlements in the Donetsk region

Ukrinform → Source tone: certain

A number of apartment blocks and private houses were damaged in Kurakhove and the neighboring villages of the Pokrovsk district

Ukrinform → Source tone: certain

One house was damaged in Pokrovsk, Kramatorsk district

Ukrinform → Source tone: certain

A multi-storey building and an administrative building were damaged in Lyman

Ukrinform → Source tone: certain

Seven multi-storey buildings and a private house were damaged in Druzhkivka

Ukrinform → Source tone: certain

Six objects were damaged in Nova Poltavka, Illinivka community

Ukrinform → Source tone: certain

In the Chasiv Yar community, Bakhmut district, six private houses and one multi-storey building were damaged

Ukrinform → Source tone: certain

In Siversk, 19 private houses and a multi-storey building were damaged

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

Russian forces captured the city council in Kurakhiv

Kyiv Post → Source tone: likely

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) still hold key industrial zones, including the Kurakhovska Thermal Power Plant and the Pipe Plant in the western part of the city

UNIAN → Source tone: certain

на окраине и в городской застройке Курахово, в городской застройке Часового Яра, восточнее Кругляковки и в районе населенного пункта Шевченко продолжаются изнурительные бои

Censor.NET → Source tone: likely

Russian occupiers in the Lyman sector began to use a new tactic of storming Ukrainian positions in larger groups of 10-15 people.

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:38.851Z

Source story: russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-december-15-2024