Military units of the 3rd Army Corps executed a counteroffensive lasting several months in the Donbas region to eliminate a Russian salient. The operation pushed Russian troops back toward the Zherebets River and reclaimed an estimated 150 to 200 square kilometers of territory near Lyman. By closing the route toward Sloviansk and northern Donbas, the advance removes a direct threat to those strategic locations.

Russian pro-war bloggers acknowledge that Ukrainian forces maintained pressure for months while the Russian military command provided optimistic reports. Ukrainian troops recently released footage confirming their control over Sviatohirsk, refuting an earlier claim by President Vladimir Putin that the city had fallen. These inaccurate battlefield assessments prevent Russian units from calling fire missions on locations they previously claimed to hold.