The General Staff of the AFU told about enemy assaults on towns in Donbas, which are repelled by Ukrainian defenders, and informed about the operational situation on the fronts at the beginning of the 44-day war.
This was reported by the General Staff of the AFU on its Facebook page.
Russian troops continue to prepare for an offensive in eastern Ukraine. The main efforts of the occupants continue to focus on capturing Mariupol, conducting an offensive near Izyum, and breaking through the defense of the United Forces grouping in the Donetsk direction.
In the Yuzhnobuzhsk direction, the enemy is trying to prevent the advance of our troops.
In the Kharkiv direction, Russian troops continue to blockade Kharkiv. In order to prevent the advance of the AFU, the occupiers put mine blast barriers.
In Izyum, which is temporarily occupied by the enemy, the "DPR people" perform the functions of the local "police", demand documents for inspection, and conduct searches of city residents and in their homes.
Units of the occupation forces are concentrating their efforts on taking control of Popasna, Rubizhne and establishing control over Mariupol.
Also, the enemy continues to conduct assault actions in most directions, and does not stop air strikes and shelling of civilian infrastructure, including with the use of MLRS. Such activity was recorded in the areas of Kreminna, Severodonetsk, Novotoshkovskoye, Popasna, Novozvanovka, Sukhaya Balka, Novoselovka Second, Stepnoye, Troitskoye, Novobakhmutovka, Marinka and Solodkoye.
"In the areas of the settlements Rubezhnoye, Popasnoye, Nizhnee, Novotoshkovskoye, Zolote and Borovskoye the occupants tried to carry out assault actions, they had no success," the General Staff told.
On the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the past 24 hours our military repelled 7 attacks of the enemy, destroyed 4 tanks, 2 artillery systems, 10 armored vehicles and 11 vehicles of the enemy. Ukrainian aviation continued strikes on places of accumulation of Russian troops.
