00:00According to the Third Ukrainian Corps, units from the 60th and 66th Independent Mechanized Brigades participated in Operation Imam.
00:08and 125, the Third Independent Assault Brigade, the Corps' Reconnaissance and Anti-Tank Battalions, as well as the Unit
00:17Lagur Special, Artan, the 8th Independent Special Operations Forces Regiment and the 10th Mobile Guard Detachment
00:25Border, Dosor.
00:27The latest reports from Ukrainian soldiers on the ground indicate that after clearing the forest south of Imam, the
00:34Ukrainians continued to advance and push the Russians further and further back.
00:39Taking advantage of the newly captured territory, they crossed the river to the rear of the Russian advance on Slovyansk and disrupted it.
00:46complete, according to RFU News.
00:49For several months, the Russians had achieved a slow but steady advance toward the Ukrainian city of Slovyansk using tactics
00:58infiltration.
00:58The absence of engineered fortifications, such as deep anti-tank ditches or barbed wire lines, made it easy for infiltrators
01:06Russians were never funneled into concentrated extermination zones where Ukrainian defenders could eliminate them.
01:13Although they suffered significant losses during the advance, the Russians managed to push the Ukrainian lines back to the town of Mikolaivka.
01:22There, the Ukrainian engineering fortifications began again, and the Russian forces were already launching their first probing assaults.
01:31when Operation Vivaldi was launched in Limán.
01:34However, this Russian push depended entirely on its flanks being protected by the Serebriansky Forest and
01:42the Donetsk River, to the north, where Russian forces were attempting to infiltrate Liman.
01:47When the Russian lines broke at Limán, the flank of the Russian force advancing towards the
01:53Ukraine's belt of fortresses.
01:55The biggest problem for the Russians then became clear.
01:59Their denial of the magnitude of the Ukrainian advances and the lost territory left the southern Russian grouping in a difficult position.
02:06Completely unaware of the new threat on its flanks, RFU News reports.
02:11The Ukrainians immediately took advantage of the situation and committed a considerable number of forces to crossing the river and fighting.
02:18to the Russian troops in the rear of the offensive on Slovyansk.
02:22Among them were, notably, drone operators trained by the renowned Rubicon drone brigade, deployed in the sector
02:31to train new Russian drone pilots, who are credited with much of the Russians' success
02:37have had here.
02:38The Ukrainians themselves positioned their drone units directly on the front line, enabling kamikaze drones
02:46FPV and bomber drones will strike deep into the Russian lines and put the Russians under heavy pressure.
02:53While Ukrainian assaults immobilized Russian fire and drone support units, the Ukrainians launched counterattacks in
03:02The entire sector, from Mikolaika's management, according to RFU News.
03:06These forces moved swiftly to maintain their shock advantage, encircling the Russian forces before penetrating.
03:14quickly and deeply in its lines.
03:16As the Ukrainian contingent from Mikolaika advanced, it joined the assault units that had crossed
03:23the river from Limán and they continued on together.
03:26Ukrainian soldiers report that the Russians had poorly consolidated their positions in this area due to their haste to advance.
03:33This allowed the Ukrainian counterattacks to grow like a snowball, to the point of completely overwhelming them.
03:41to Russian drone pilots, frontline logistics depots, and low-level Russian command centers.
03:48As a result, the Ukrainians captured another 200 square kilometers south of the forest, and there are no reports at this time.
03:57that the advance has stopped.
03:59Recent Ukrainian counterattacks in the Serebriansky Forest and against the Russian advance east of Mikolaika have raised
04:06the total area of Ukrainian territory liberated to the astonishing figure of 800 square kilometers.
04:13At this point, Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi is transitioning from operational counterattacks to a full-fledged counteroffensive in
04:21The entire sector, RFU News reports.
04:24This undoes more than a year and a half of Russian advances along a front of
04:3060 kilometers wide,
04:31And the Russian advance on one of the largest remaining Ukrainian fortress cities in the Donbas is being disrupted.
