Russian troops in the Kramatorsk direction, after conducting artillery preparations, crossed the Seversky Donets River and are consolidating in the areas of Lysychansk and Belogorovka.
This was reported by the General Staff of the AFU.
In the Volyn, Polessk and Seversk directions there are no significant changes. On the latter, from the territory of Kursk region, the aggressor used artillery and helicopters of army aviation to hit the positions of the Defense Forces in the areas of Vasilievske, Bilopolye, Bachevsk and Volkovka in Sumy region.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy troop grouping, supported by army aviation, concentrates its efforts to constrain the actions of the Ukrainian Army and prevent them from launching an offensive. In the direction of Prudyanka settlement, Ukrainian soldiers suppressed a hostile assault attempt. In order to disrupt the control and communication system of the Defense Forces, the enemy actively uses electronic warfare complexes.
In the Slavyansk direction, enemy units are trying to establish control over the settlements of Bogorodichnoye, Mazanovka and Dolyna by assault actions. Fighting operations continue.
The enemy is regrouping troops to resume the offensive. To this end, a battalion tactical group was moved from the area of Izyum in the direction of the village of Snezhkovka, additional units of barrel artillery were deployed.
In the Donetsk direction, the main efforts of the enemy groups are focused on the gradual displacement of Defense Forces units to the Seversk - Fedorovka - Bakhmut border.
In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy intensified shelling with barrel and rocket artillery along the line of contact, and also launched massive rocket attacks in the areas of Pokrovske and Berestove and near the Uglegorsk thermal power plant. With the support of artillery, the enemy launched offensives in the areas of Vasilievka, Berestovo, Klinovo and Maiorsk settlements, without success.
In Avdiivka and Kurakhivka directions the occupants carried out assault actions in the directions of Pobeda and Marinka settlements. The enemy's attack aviation launched missile strikes in the areas of the eastern outskirts of Avdeevka and Maryinka settlements.
In the Novopavlovsk and Zaporizhzhya directions, the enemy is systematically engaging fire in order to restrain the Defense Forces units and prevent them from overturning to other directions.
In the Yuzhnobuzhskoe and Tavricheskoe directions the main efforts of the Russian Army are focused on attempts to regain lost positions in the areas of Ivanovka, Potemkino and Mirne and preventing our troops from conducting counteroffensive actions in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. The enemy is improving the engineering equipment of positions in the area of Novovoskresenskoye.
As part of the logistical support of troops from the temporarily occupied Crimea to the railway station "Kalanchak" (Myrne, Kherson region) moved 17 carriages with ammunition.
We recall that on July 3, it became known that the Ukrainian military left Lysychansk, Luhansk Region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces withdrew from their positions in order to save the lives of their personnel.
