The General Staff of the AFU described the situation in the regions at the beginning of the 31-day war, and noted the plans of the Russian occupants to intensify the activities of sabotage groups in Kyiv.
This is reported by the General Staff of the AFU on its FB page.
The enemy in certain directions unsuccessfully continues to attempt assaults, conducts air raids and tries in vain to inflict fire on units of the AFU.
In order to restore the combat effectiveness of its units, replenish ammunition and fuel and lubricants, the enemy due to the lack of qualified personnel conducts staffing with low moral qualities and persons prone to abuse drugs and alcohol, said the General Staff.
The occupiers have deployed almost all units of the Rosgvardia from the occupied Crimea and parts of the Kherson, Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions to try to suppress resistance from residents of Kherson, Genichesk, Berdyansk and in parts of Mariupol.
"The occupants are trying to intensify the activities of sabotage and reconnaissance groups on the territory of Kiev in order to destabilize the social and political situation and disrupt the system of state and military administration," the report reads.
The Ukrainian grouping of defense forces continues to conduct a defense operation in certain directions, conducts a stabilization operation, and performs the tasks of territorial defense.
Thus, the defenders of Kyiv hold the defensive lines and continue to repel the offensive of the enemy, inflicting fire strikes on him.
In the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, the OOS grouping repelled all enemy attacks and inflicted significant losses on the Russian invaders.
Thus, the AFU destroyed 8 tanks, 17 units of armored and 11 units of automotive equipment of the enemy. The enemy's losses in manpower amounted to about 170 people. Anti-aircraft defense units shot down 3 aircraft and 3 UAVs of the enemy.
"The grouping of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed 12 enemy air targets (3 aircraft, 3 UAVs, a helicopter and 5 cruise missiles) during the previous day. The strike aircraft of the Air Forces, under the cover of fighter jets, carried out crushing missile and bomb strikes on convoys of equipment and accumulations of occupant troops," reads the report.
Earlier, it was reported that according to the US Defense Department, Russia was now concentrating on an attempt to seize the eastern part of Ukraine, in particular the entire Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
