 Ukrainian forces have seized the tactical initiative and made a tactically significant gains around Bakhmut in counter-attack operations. Institute for the study of war announced it. Multiple Russian mill bloggers claimed that Ukrainian forces drove through the Russian defensive lines south and southwest of Ivanovsky and northwest of Klesivka from the northwest. Wagner Group financier Evgeny Prygoshin claimed that Russian forces yielded 570 meters of territory north of Bakhmut, which is consistent with Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hannah Maliar's statement that Ukrainian forces had advanced 500 meters north of Bakhmut and 1,000 meters south of Bakhmut. Prygoshin accused the Russian Ministry of Defense of losing advantageous positions after Ministry of Defense subordinated units retreated from their positions on Bakhmut's flanks necessary for an encirclement.