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Operation Vivaldi’s fourth phase liberated a further 101 square kilometres, for 277 square kilometres and 16 settlements over four phases. “We have prevented the enemy from bypassing the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk urban agglomeration from the flanks and encircling it, while also protecting the Kharkiv-Sloviansk motorway… We have disrupted the offensive by Russia’s Zapad (West) Group of Forces and forced it to redeploy some units of the 1st Guards Tank Army, easing the pressure on Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi.”
Unverified. DeepState corroborates the three villages named in the phase; no tracker has published an area figure for it, and ISW reports the 101 and 277 square-kilometre totals without confirming them. ISW says the tank-army move matches its own forecast but gives no position.