The General Staff of the AFU told about the operational situation and the situation on the fronts at the beginning of the 59th day of the confrontation with the Russian invasion. Russian Federation continues full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine
This is reported by the General Staff of the AFU.
The enemy conducts offensives in the Eastern operating zone in order to defeat the grouping of United Forces, the establishment of full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and ensure a land route between these territories and the occupied Crimea.
The greatest activity of the enemy is observed in the Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions. The occupant units are regrouping.
The enemy does not stop bombing and missile attacks on military and civilian infrastructure.
In the Volyn, Polessk and Seversk directions, certain units of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus perform tasks to reinforce the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions. In order to clarify the position of our troops in the Sumy direction, the enemy engaged UAVs from the area of the village of Glushkovo.
There is also a threat of missile and aviation strikes from the aforementioned directions. In addition, it is not ruled out that the enemy may carry out provocations on the Ukrainian-Russian border and accuse the representatives of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in them.
In the Tavricheskiy and Yuzhno-Bugskiy directions, the enemy concentrates its main efforts on improving its tactical position and holding the occupied frontiers.
The occupants deployed a S-300VM battery to build up their air defense system near the town of Skadovsk.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the grouping of enemy troops continues to partially blockade Kharkiv and bombard it with barrel and rocket artillery.
According to available information, units of the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade, which took an active part in the mass murder, torture and violence of civilians in the town of Bucha, are operating in the area of the village of Izium and have already suffered losses.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy conducts offensives along the entire line of contact. The enemy concentrates its main efforts on the offensive actions in the Severodonetsk direction carries out an intensive firing influence on our troops in order to displace them and create conditions for the development of the offensive on Slavyansk.
The offensive in the direction of Novotoshkovskoye and assault actions in the areas of Rubizhne, Popasna and Marinka continue.
In the Mariupol direction, the enemy continues to block Ukrainian units near the Azovstal plant and conduct air strikes on the city, including with the use of long-range aircraft. An engineering unit arrived in the occupied city to clear the port infrastructure of Mariupol.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy moved a battalion tactical group from the 19th Motorized Rifle Division of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District to reinforce its grouping.
As part of the additional reserves, a unit of the privately owned Wagner military company, consisting of up to 200 servicemen, has been formed. The advance group of the unit was transferred to the Novobakhmutovka area for reconnaissance of the terrain and clarification of the order of interaction. The information is being specified.
In the Yuzhnobugsk direction, the enemy is trying to improve its tactical position and consolidate on the administrative boundaries of the Kherson region. Suffering significant losses in equipment.
In the Black Sea and Azov Sea operational zones, enemy ship groups in the waters of the Black Sea and Azov Sea continue to carry out tasks to isolate the area of combat operations and reconnaissance.
In the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions alone, 8 enemy attacks were repelled in the past 24 hours, 9 tanks, 18 units of armored and 13 units of automotive equipment, a fuel tanker and 3 artillery systems were destroyed.
