The Russian occupiers are accumulating reserves and preparing for an attack on Slovyansk. At the same time, they are constantly storming Severodonetsk.

This is reported on Facebook by the General Staff of the AFU.

Volyn and Polesye directions

Units of the armed forces of Belarus perform tasks to cover the Belarusian-Ukrainian border, carry out fortification of the area in the Gomel region, and conduct electronic reconnaissance.

Seversk direction

Units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to engineer positions in the border areas of Kursk Region. They are building up air defense systems in the Bryansk region.

Kharkov direction

The enemy intensively shelled the positions of the Ukrainian troops with the barrel and rocket artillery. Conducted a reconnaissance battle near the settlement of Rubezhnoye, with no success.

Slavyanskoye direction

Russian forces took no active action. The main efforts were concentrated on accumulating resources for the purpose of further offensive in the direction of Slavyansk. The enemy shelled positions and conducted aerial reconnaissance by Orlan-10 UAVs.

No active operations were recorded in the Liman direction.

Severodonetsk direction

The enemy conducts round-the-clock aerial reconnaissance by Orlan-10 UAVs. Conducts assault actions in order to establish full control over the city of Severodonetsk, combat operations continue, the enemy has no success.

Bakhmut direction

The enemy launched helicopter strikes on Yakovlevka and missile strikes in the areas of Travneve, Dolomitnoye, Zaitsevo and New York settlements

On the eastern outskirts of Berestovo settlement, the Ukrainian military successfully repelled an assault.

In Avdeevskoe, Kurakhovskoe, Novopavlovskoe and Zaporozhskoe directions the enemy did not conduct active operations. In the Avdiivka direction there is an increase in the intensity of artillery shelling of our positions.

Yuzhno-Bug direction

The enemy shelled the settlements Limany, Luparevo, Novaya Zarya, Tavricheskoe, Novogrigorovka, Belousovo, Knyazhevka, Topolino, Bolshaya Kostromka and Osokorovka. It is also improving the engineering equipment of the first and second lines of defense.

The Russian occupants are building up the anti-aircraft defense system in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region.

We shall remind you that earlier it was reported that Russian troops are trying to approach Kharkiv to make it a frontline city.