Ukrainian fighters have struck 13 areas where the invaders are concentrated, and the Russian Federation is trying to carry out offensive actions in the Donetsk region.
This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Russian Federation continues to conduct offensive operations in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiiv, Marin, and Shakhtar areas. Bakhmut remains the epicenter of hostilities. Without the desired result on the battlefield, the Russian Federation uses terror tactics against the civilian population. It is shelling cities and villages, as well as critical infrastructure facilities, disregarding the norms of International Humanitarian Law.
During the day, the enemy launched 5 missile strikes, 4 of them against objects of the civil infrastructure of the city of Zaporizhzhya. The enemy also carried out 12 airstrikes and launched more than 20 attacks from rocket salvo systems. The probability of enemy missile strikes throughout the territory of Ukraine remains high.
In the Volyn, Polis, Siver and Slobozhan directions, the operational situation has become. The enemy maintains a military presence in the border areas, but the formation of offensive groups has not been detected. The training of units of the territorial troops of the armed forces of the Russian Federation continues at the training grounds of the Republic of Belarus. During the day, the enemy shelled the areas of Oleksandrivka settlements of Chernihiv region; Kharkivka and Starikove - Sumy and Chervona Zorya, Veterinarne, Strelecha, Staritsa, Vovchansk and Velikiy Burluk in the Kharkiv region.
On the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions, the enemy continues to try to break through the defenses of our troops. He led unsuccessful offensive actions in the areas of the settlements of Dibrova, Verkhnokamianske and Spirn. He carried out artillery shelling in the areas of Putnykovo, Krasne Pershe, Dvorichna, Hryanikyvka, Kup'yansk, Krokhmalne and Berestov settlements of the Kharkiv region; Novoselivske, Nevske and Bilogorivka - Luhansk, as well as Spirne and Fedorivka in the Donetsk region.
In the direction of Bakhmut, the enemy does not stop trying to capture the city of Bakhmut. Our defenders repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Orihovo-Vasylivka, Hryhorivka and in the northern part of Bakhmut. In particular, Vasyukivka, Zaliznyanske, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Hryhorivka, Bakhmut, Ivanovske, Chasiv Yar, Kurdyumivka, Ozaryanivka and Severny of the Donetsk region were subjected to enemy shelling.
On the Avdiyiv, Maryinsky, and Shakhtarsky directions, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive actions in the areas of Kamianka, Severna, Pervomaiske, and Maryinka settlements. Kamianka, Lastochkine, Avdiivka, Tonenke, Georgiivka, Nevelske, Maryinka, Vugledar and Velika Novosilka of the Donetsk region came under enemy fire.
In the Zaporizhzhya and Kherson directions, the enemy is conducting defensive operations. In particular, Olhivske, Chervone, Gulyaipole, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanilivka, Novoandriivka and Kamianske of the Zaporizhzhya region came under fire. The city of Kherson was the next to be shelled.
The Russian occupiers continue to use civilian institutions on the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhya region for their own needs. In particular, the enemy is using a school building in one of the settlements of the Pologiv district as a field hospital for 50 beds. In this way, the occupiers are trying to shorten the period of return of personnel from among sanitary losses.
In Rubizhny, Luhansk Oblast, the local so-called occupying authorities are forcing the population to obtain citizenship of the Russian Federation. Ukrainian passports are not being taken away from people yet, however, for employment it is necessary to have a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation.
During the day, the Aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out 6 strikes on areas where the invaders were concentrated. Also, this day, our defenders shot down an enemy UAV "Shakhed-136", and units of missile forces and artillery hit 7 areas of concentration of enemy personnel and military equipment during the day.
We will remind that the Ukrainian military eliminated another 880 occupiers over the past day. They also destroyed 14 enemy UAVs.
In the cities of the Luhansk region temporarily captured by the Russian troops, the occupation "administration", trying to hide the total mobilization, involves all men of conscription age allegedly for large-scale military exercises.
