The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces told about the operational situation on the fronts at the beginning of the 104th day of the confrontation with the Russian occupants.
This was reported by the General Staff of the AFU.
The threat of missile and air strikes from the territory of Belarus remains in the Volyn and Polessk directions. Within the framework of the Southern Operational Command, it is planned to increase the strength of the Belarusian armed forces up to 80,000 servicemen. It is planned to equip the military units with equipment and weapons using the technical means in storage.
The enemy did not conduct active operations in the Seversk direction and no signs of establishing strike groups were detected. Up to three battalion-size tactical groups continue to be held in the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk Regions to demonstrate their presence and restrain the Defense Forces.
Mortar shelling of our troops units in the areas of Khodina and Velyka Pisarevka of Sumy region was carried out from the territory of the Russian Federation.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy concentrates its main efforts on holding the occupied frontiers and border areas to the north of Kharkiv and restraining the advance of our troops. Conducts remote mines in the direction of our troops advance to Rubezhnoye.
In the Slavyansk direction, the enemy concentrates its main efforts to continue the offensive in the direction of Izyum and Slavyansk settlements. Attempts to advance in the direction of Dolgynkoe and Dolina settlements.
The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops in the areas of Bazalievka, Brazhkovka and Grushevakha settlements. In order to clarify the position of our units and correct artillery fire, it conducts aerial reconnaissance using UAVs.
In addition to artillery shelling in the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out air strikes by planes and helicopters. The main efforts of the aggressor focused on the Severodonetsk and Bakhmut directions.
The enemy did not conduct active combat operations in the Liman direction. A missile strike was launched against the village of Nikolaevka, 4 km east of Slavyansk.
The enemy continues to storm the town of Severodonetsk, hostilities continue. Our soldiers are inflicting damage on the enemy.
In the Bakhmut direction Ukrainian troops successfully countered and repelled the enemy offensive in the direction of Nagornoye, Berestovoye, Krynichnoye and Roty settlements.
In order to strengthen the grouping in the directions of Popasna and Mykolaivka, the enemy is redeploying units.
In Avdeevka, Kurakhovskoe, Novopavlovskoe and Zaporizhzhia directions the enemy did not conduct active combat operations.
In the Yuzhno-Bugsk direction, the enemy concentrated its main efforts on improving its tactical position, holding the occupied lines, replenishing ammunition and fuel and lubricants.
Ukrainian helicopters struck at concentrations of enemy forces in the Kherson region, and airplanes struck ammunition depots in the Mykolaiv region. The enemy lost over 20 men and up to 10 pieces of military equipment.
In order to restore the lost position the enemy, with the support of artillery and army aviation, made offensive actions in the direction of Lozovoye - Belaya Krynitsa, with no success. To clarify the positions of our troops, the enemy conducted aerial reconnaissance by UAVs.
Three carriers of sea-launched cruise missiles of the Kalibr type are in readiness to use missile weapons in the Black Sea.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions repelled 10 enemy attacks, destroyed one tank, three artillery systems, two armored combat vehicles, one vehicle and two ammunition depots. Anti-aircraft defense units shot down two Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles.
