Just an update with the Wikimap. As usual use with care.
It highly likely that the (Pro)Russians now control all the southern and southeastern ares of the Luhansk oblast. The heavy artillery strikes of Russian forces inside Russia against the rather isolated Ukrainian troops certainly facilitated the (Pro)Russian offensive. While a long part of the border was already open, it will be very reassuring for the Russian side to know that the Ukrainian army will have little chance to reduce or even block the stream of men and material from Russia in the near future. They have also been able to avoid an complete encirclement of Luhansk itself, the last large city of the oblast under their control. Most of the Ukrainian forces seem to have escaped the Southern cauldron.
On the other side the very densly populated triangle Donetsk, Horlivka, Makiyivka, if not completely cut-off, can only be supplied by Russia with great difficulties. Of course there seems to be heavy fighting along the string of cities along the souther highway H21 between the two Oblasts, with (Pro)Russian forces trying to relieve the almost completely encircled hub and keep the road open.
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