ISW Battles Maps: APU Regains Control of Segment of E40 Highway North of Bakhmut

Luhansk direction: Russian troops unsuccessfully attacked in the direction of Nevsky and Makeevka

On March 25, Russian troops conducted limited ground attacks northeast of Kupyansk. The footage released on March 25 allegedly shows occupier drone operators attacking Ukrainian positions at an undisclosed location in the Kharkiv region. The speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Sergei Cherevaty, said that the Russian troops were unable to achieve a decisive offensive at the Kupyansk-Liman line.

In addition, on March 25, the invaders launched limited ground strikes along the Svatovo-Kremennaya line. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russian troops conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the area of ​​Dibrova (5 km southwest of Kremennaya), Serebryansky forestry (10 km south of Kremennaya), Belogorovka (11 km south of Kremennaya) and Vyimka (26 km south of Kremennaya).

Geolocation footage released on March 24 shows Russian troops conducting a limited offensive 10km southwest of Svatovo. The Russian blogger also stated that the invaders unsuccessfully attacked in the direction of Nevsky and Makeevka (21 km north-west of Kremennaya) and made little progress in the Belogorovka area.

Donetsk direction: Ukrainian Armed Forces recaptured part of the E40 highway north of Bakhmut

Russian forces continued to carry out ground strikes in and around Bakhmut. Geolocation footage released on March 25 shows that the occupiers advanced along highway T0513 in Bakhmut towards the city center and partly in the southwestern part of Bakhmut.

Russian bloggers also claimed that fighting continued north of Bakhmut, in the city center and southwest of Bakhmut. Also, geolocation footage released on March 24 shows that during a recent counterattack, Ukrainian forces recaptured part of the territory along the E40 highway north of Bakhmut.

South direction: Ukrainian Armed Forces hit a missile system south of Golay Pristan

The troops of the Russian Federation carried out a massive rotation of forces in the temporarily occupied Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region. On March 25, Russian troops also fired on the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.

Geolocation footage released on March 24 shows Ukrainian forces striking a Russian fuel depot at Novaya Zburovka (24km southwest of Kherson) and a Russian missile system south of Hola Prystan (21km southwest of from Kherson).