The Ukrainian General Staff has said that the situation on the Pokrovsk front, where a group of Russian troops recently broke through near the town of Dobropillia, is stabilising. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,

They did not advance beyond their initial infiltration,” Tregubov said. “The map shows their route rather than all the ground they occupied. They were stopped early, and now the forces that entered are being contained and destroyed.

"What has been building up for the Ukrainians is fundamentally a manpower issue," a former senior Pentagon adviser told Newsweek.