The Ukrainian military continues to destroy the Russian occupiers. The Armed Forces attacked more than 13 places of concentration of weapons and military equipment of the occupiers and six air defense systems of the Russians. This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The aggressor continues to focus his efforts on attempts to implement his plans to reach the administrative border of the Donetsk region, as well as to maintain the captured districts of the Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, and Mykolaiv regions. The enemy continues to resist, pulls up reserves, conducts mobilization.
The occupiers are shelling the positions of our troops along the entire contact line, carrying out engineering equipment of the positions in separate directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance. The enemy continues to attack critical infrastructure and civilian objects of Ukraine.
The situation has not changed significantly on the Volyn and Polissky directions. The threat of missile and air strikes from the airspace and territory of the Republic of Belarus remains.
The enemy fired in other directions:
in the Siversky direction - from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of Atynske and Velyka Rybytsia settlements;
in the Slobozhansk direction - from mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of Hryanikyvka, Gatishche and Strilka settlements;
in the Kramatorsk direction - from tanks and artillery of various types, along the entire line of contact. In particular, in the areas of settlements of Bilogorivka, Terna and Yampolivka;
in the Bakhmut direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Zelenopilya, Soledar, Mayorsk, Ivangrad and Yakivlia;
in the Avdiiv direction - from tanks and artillery of various calibers, in the Maryinka, Nevelsky, Pervomaysky and Zolotaya Niva districts.
The enemy did not carry out offensive actions in the Novopavlovsk and Zaporizhzhya directions. The settlements of Stepnohirsk, Orihiv and Kamyshevakh were shelled.
In the direction of Yuzhnobuzka, Nikopol is subjected to shelling from rocket systems of salvo fire.
The enemy suffers losses every day. The air force of the defense forces carried out 19 strikes during the day. The defeat of more than 13 places of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 6 enemy anti-aircraft missile systems, was confirmed. In addition, our air defense units shot down 8 UAVs. Six of them are "Shahed -136".
During the current day, missile forces and artillery hit 2 control points, 3 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, and 2 ammunition depots.
In addition, on October 12 of this year, two enemy military facilities in the area of Burchak settlement of Zaporizhzhya region were confirmed to have been defeated by fire. The losses of the occupiers are being specified.