🏴 Capture

The 1st Battalion, 37th Marine Brigade captured Novopavlika, Zeleny Hai (re-captured), and Yalta village.

August 22, 2025 Chasiv Yar, Donetsk

Verified Independently confirmed by 4 sources

Stefan Korshak (Substack) Institute for the Study of War Kyiv Independent Censor.NET

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Entities

1/37 Marines (military_unit) Novopavlika (location) Zeleny Hai (location) Yalta (location) Russian forces (military_unit) Ukrainian forces (military_unit) Russia (organization) Pokrovsk (location)

Source Reports

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Stefan Korshak (Substack) → Source tone: likely

The 1st Battalion, 37th Marine Brigade captured Novopavlika, Zeleny Hai (re-captured), and Yalta village.

Institute for the Study of War → Source tone: likely

Russian forces recently advanced northwest of Chasiv Yar.

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

Russia's main focus remains the Pokrovsk sector in the eastern Donetsk Oblast, where its troops are slowly advancing northeast of the logistic hub. Russian troops are trying to close in on the Ukrainian pocket around Pokrovsk, approximately 16 kilometers wide.

Censor.NET → Source tone: likely

The enemy has advanced near Nykanorivka (village of Shakhiv village community, Pokrovsk district, Donetsk region)

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:30.708Z

Source story: day-1275a-2025-08-24