 Ukrainian troops have achieved partial success on the Bakhmut front and have driven Russian troops from their positions south of Bakhmut. Institute for the Study of War reported this. Colonel General Oleksandr Sursky, commander of the ground forces of the armed forces of Ukraine, said that Ukrainian troops are gradually regaining ground in the Bakhmut area. On the 5th and 6th of September, a Russian military blogger said that Ukrainian forces had advanced in Klishchivka over the past three days and that Ukrainian forces now controlled half of the settlement. Other Russian sources claimed on September 6 that counter-attack and positional fighting was continuing in the Klishchivka area. Russian sources, including the Russian Defense Ministry, claimed that Ukrainian troops had breached Russian ground lines of communication northwest of Klishchivka. Geolocation imagery shows that Ukrainian troops advanced along the trench line west of Verbov and the general staff of Ukraine said that Ukrainian forces had made progress in the Robotyn Novopropivka area south of Orykiv. Ukrainian forces continued counter-offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Western Zaporizia Oblast directions and have made gains in Western Zaporizia Oblast as of September 6. Ukrainian forces conducted offensive operations in at least two sectors of the front and advanced near Bakhmut, along the Abdiyev-Kadanietsk city line, and in Western Zaporizia Oblast.