Ukraine believes Russia will try to envelope its most experienced fighting force, the Joint Forces Operation

Russia

Ukraine

Kharkiv

Russian forces are pushing south from Izyum in some of the most intense fighting ...

Donbas region

Luhansk

Donetsk

... while also trying to push north, with less apparent success, from Velyka Novosilka

Russian-

controlled

territory

Mariupol

Kyiv

100 km

100 miles

Russian-controlled

territory

Kharkiv

Ukraine

Russian forces are pushing south from Izyum in some of the most intense fighting ...

Donbas region

Russia

Kramatorsk

Luhansk

Dnipro

Donetsk

... while also trying to push north, with less apparent success, from Velyka Novosilka

Kyiv

50 km

Mariupol

50 miles