It would make life easier if Trump would say which off the cuff remark was for who. So for example, this one's for the neocons – 'we'll be sending troops soon', and this one's for Putin – 'we won't be sending troops', and to the Europeans – 'we might give a backstop', and to Zelensky – 'we're not giving a backstop'.
On the battlefront Russians making some gains in Zaporizhia district but the ground is flat and heavily mined so the effort is mainly to keep Ukraine troops fixed there. The main Russian plan is to finish with the Donbas and then sweep west and north east from there so attacking Zap from the east rather than from the south.
In Pokrovsk the Ukrainian military 'deep state' map has got stuck again and hasn't changed since they drew the bisecting of the Russian breakout north.
Other mappers show no bisecting (never did) and rather show a fattening out of the breakout region.
Since Ukraine rushed troops to the Pokrovsk breakout they have been losing ground steadily around the cities of Kostiantynivka and Kupiansk.
Ukrainian Deep State Map
Military Summary Map
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