This was reported by the advisor to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko.
"Enemy aircraft are active on the road from Nikolske to Kinski Rozdory. A significant number of trucks with manpower and their junk are returning to Nikolske part of Mariupol district. They tell the locals about the order to "retreat behind the pyramids" (defense line fortified with concrete anti-tank obstacles - ed.)," Andriushchenko writes.
In addition, Andriushchenko said that the Russians have begun intensive fortifications in the area of forests in Fedorivka and Nikolske districts.
The advisor to the mayor of Mariupol suggested: "It looks like they are urgently building another defense line in the Nikolske direction." This is the Nikolske-Manhush line.
On the morning of June 12, Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had liberated 7 settlements and advanced 6.5 kilometers.
Later, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense officially confirmed the AFU liberated Pyatykhatky in Zaporizhzhia region. Units in the Tavria direction advanced up to 7 km.
On June 24, the Ukrainian Defense Forces officially confirmed the liberation of the territories near Krasnohorivka in the Donetsk region, which had been under occupation since 2014.
On June 26, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar also said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had de-occupied the village of Rivnopil, Donetsk region. It is located in the Volnovakha district of the Donetsk region. The Russian army occupied the village in March 2022.
On July 5, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy established ten military administrations in Zaporizhzhia region and appointed their heads.
On July 13, the General Staff reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had some success in the areas of Novodanylivka - Shyroka Balka; Mala Tokmachka - Novopokrovka.
On July 27, the 35th Separate Marine Brigade together with the 129th Brigade liberated the village of Staromayorske in Donetsk Oblast.
On July 29, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar announced successes in the Berdiansk and Mariupol directions.
On July 31, it was reported that during the counteroffensive, the Ukrainian military liberated more than 204 square kilometers of territory in the south, and another 37 square kilometers in the Bakhmut direction.
On August 1, Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman Oleksandr Voitko said that fighting for Pryiutne and Novodonetske was ongoing west of Vuhledar.
On August 4, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said that the Defense Forces had already broken through the first line of defense in the south and moved to the intermediate line.
Brigadier General Dmytro Hereha, Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Support Forces, said that in the occupied territories, Russian forces have set up a multi-echelon system of engineering barriers, which consists of several strips of 10 to 40 km each with a fairly high density. This causes difficulties for the Ukrainian Defense Forces in conducting offensives in the southern direction.
On August 10, it was reported that the Defense Forces had partial success near Urozhayne and Staromayorske, and were entrenched near Bakhmut.
On August 15, the spokesperson for the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Andriy Kovalov, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had succeeded in the direction of Urozhaine and were consolidating their positions.
On August 16, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar reported that the Ukrainian military had completely liberated Urozhaine in the Donetsk region. Defense forces consolidate their positions