Courtesy of Mish.
A lot has happened since Western media reported on August that rebels in Donetsk were surrounded.
Here is the map of major military operations from my August 13 post Multi-Pronged Attack on Donetsk Rebels Likely Within Days.
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Legend
- Blue jets inside red circles are locations where Ukrainian military planes are confirmed to have crashed after being shot down. (This is only for the period of the map, August 1-10.
- Blue jets shooting into blue circles are locations of Ukrainian air raids, again just for the period August 1-10.
- Blue circles with “X” inside them are Ukrainian artillery strikes.
- Red circles with “X” inside them are rebel artillery strikes.
- Red lines with arrows are rebel advances
- Blue lines with arrows are Ukrainian advances
- Solid red lines (no arrow tips) are rebel defense lines
Current Map of Military Operations
Notice the completely different nature of the map. Seven areas in white show places where Ukrainian forces are trapped. On August 13, only one such occurrence.
Note the surge in pink on the South end of the map.
Rebels claim Mariupol is about to be liberated by forces under Igor Strelkov (the Donetsk defense minister who “disappeared” a few weeks ago.)
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