3rd Army Corps commander confirms Ukrainian offensive near Lyman, promises good news

The 3rd Army Corps has reported mopping up 75 sq km and liberating a further 10 sq km as part of counteroffensive operations in the northern part of Donetsk Oblast.

Source: Brigadier General Andrii Biletskyi, Commander of the 3rd Army Corps, on social media

Details: The offensive operation is called Vivaldi. The 3rd Corps has so far reported clearing Novoselivka, Oleksandrivka, Yarova and the outskirts of Korovii Yar of Russian infiltration and liberating Serednie. Biletskyi stressed that Vivaldi has four seasons, called for information silence and promised good news in official updates.

Quote from the 3rd Corps: "We confirm reports of a Ukrainian army offensive in the north of Donetsk Oblast. Maintaining information silence, the units eliminated pockets of enemy infiltration and cleared 75 sq km. A further 10 sq km has been liberated. A devastating blow has been dealt to the combat capability of Russia's 20th and 25th Armies.

Enemy losses at this stage amount to around 1,500 soldiers, more than 12,000 drones and hundreds of armoured vehicles, artillery systems and other vehicles.

Meanwhile, unmanned systems units cut off the enemy's logistics routes. As a result of the Corps' strikes, Russian forces moved their fuel and lubricant supplies outside Ukraine, to Voronezh Oblast: a pipeline was shut down and warehouses were destroyed.

This was made possible thanks to the 60th Separate Mechanised Brigade, the 125th Separate Heavy Mechanised Brigade, the battalion tactical group of the 3rd Assault Brigade, the Corps' 3rd Separate Reconnaissance Battalion and 25th Separate Anti-Tank Battalion, as well as attached units – the 66th Separate Mechanised Brigade, the 85th Tactical Group of the 8th Special Operations Forces Regiment, the Artan special unit of Ukraine's Defence Intelligence and the Dozor 10th Mobile Border Guard Detachment."

Quote from Biletskyi: "There is currently a lot of information in open sources suggesting that the ultimate goal of our offensive operations is to reach the banks of the Chornyi Zherebets River. But our operation is called Vivaldi. And Vivaldi, as everyone knows, has four seasons. This is only the first of them. So follow our official updates and don't rush to give away spoilers. There will be good news."

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