The latest from Ukraine: Operational silence rules.

[Tomconroy]

The following is from the map guy for the Institute for War:
"Ukrainian forces have made newly-confirmed tactical gains in the past 24 hours. They are now geolocated to be within 2.5 km of the great anti-vehicle ditch - the next major military engineering obstacle within the Russian layered defense


We've recessed the Russian control line to the fighting positions behind the dragons teeth. Commercially available satellite imagery indicates that most Russian forces and heavy equipment are deployed south of the dragon's teeth.
The land between the ditch and the dragon's teeth is likely heavily mined."


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The problem with the ISW maps is that they are usually based on days old geolocated video and may not reflect recent activity.
I don't really know a lot about what's going on. I'm relatively certain Ukraine is on the advance to the southwest of Robotyne trying to take some elevated ground. There is probably fighting in the village directly south of Robotyne. There are also advances on the axis to the west.
Russia has been moving undermanned battalions to the Robotyne front. Ukraine probably will transfer troops from Bahkmut to the southern axis soon.

[WarGamer]

2. The MUD starts next month...

"general Mud" starts in September into October and is a major hindrance to over-road travel by tanks, AV and even trucks until the temperatures drop enough to freeze the mud.

[Beastly Boy]

3. LiveMap, also based on geolocated data, shows contested territory extending

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all the way to Solodka Balka, some three miles southwest of Novoprokopivka
https://ukraine.liveuamap.com/

This places Ukrainian troops right in front of Russia's second line of defense, and just 7.5 miles away from the Tokmak line of defense.

This is probably the most difficult stage of the counteroffensive. It's do or die now, quite literally, I am afraid.

[Recycle_Guru]

4. I am glad they aren't releasing real time or near real time

geolocated data.

Their ability to succeed against Russian troops is vastly more important than our desire to know what the latest is