The Ukrainian military continues to destroy the Russian occupiers. On October 30, our soldiers successfully stopped enemy attacks in the Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The enemy is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, concentrates efforts on restraining the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, does not stop conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiiv directions.
The enemy continues shelling units of the Defense Forces along the contact line, carries out fortification equipment of the lines in separate directions and conducts aerial reconnaissance. Strikes critical infrastructure and civilian homes, violating international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war.
Over the past 24 hours, the enemy has launched 4 missile and 5 air strikes, launched more than 90 attacks from rocket salvo systems.
Areas of more than 20 settlements were hit by enemy attacks. Among them are Kupyansk in Kharkiv region, Siversk in Donetsk region, Nova Kamianka in Kherson region and Berezneguvate and Ochakiv in Mykolaiv region.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation remains without significant changes. Belarus supports the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukrainians.
Russia continues to transfer individual units to the territory of this country. The threat of missile strikes and the use of attack UAVs from the territory of Belarus remains.
The enemy shelled in other directions:
in the Seversky direction - from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Galaganivka of the Chernihiv region and Pokrovka of the Sumy region;
in the Slobozhansk direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Gatishche, Kamianka, Krasne, Ohirtseve and Staritsa settlements of the Kharkiv region;
in the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions - from artillery of various types, in the areas of Tabaivka and Terna settlements of the Kharkiv region; Grekivka, Kovalivka, Karmazynivka, Makiivka, Novoehorivka, Nevske, Ploschanka and Chervonopivka in Luhansk region and Zarichne and Yampolivka in Donetsk region;
in the Bakhmut direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of Andriivka, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Bilogorivka, Verkhnyokamianske, Mayorsk, Opytne, Siversk, Soledar, Spirne and Yakovlivka settlements of the Donetsk region;
in the Avdiiv region - from tanks and artillery of various calibers, in the areas of Avdiivka, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Novomykhailivka, and Pervomaiske settlements of the Donetsk region;
in the Novopavliivka and Zaporizhzhya directions - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Vremivka, Vugledar, Mykilske, Pavlivka, Paraskoviivka and Prechistivka settlements of the Donetsk region and Dorozhnyanka, Malynivka, Novodanilivka, Olgivske and Pavlivka in the Zaporizhzhy region.
About 20 settlements along the contact line were hit by fire in the South Buz direction. Among them are Biloghirka, Davydiv Brid, Myrne, Nova Kamianka, Pravdyne and Chervone in the Kherson region and Kiselyvka and Ternovy Pody in the Mykolaiv region.
During the day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of Zelene settlements of the Kharkiv region; Bilogorivka, Mykolaivka and Novoselivske in the Luhansk Region; Avdiivka, Bakhmutske, Vesele, Vodyane, Mayorsk, Maryinka and Novobakhmutivka of the Donetsk region.
In the territory of the Kherson region, the occupiers continue to dismantle and remove the equipment of cellular communication towers to the Donetsk region in order to establish and expand the coverage of the so-called national communication operators.
Preparations for the evacuation of individual units and military equipment of the enemy from the right-bank part of the Kherson region are ongoing. For this purpose, the availability of watercraft of the river fleet is verified, pontoon crossings are installed, and the serviceability and readiness of barges are periodically checked. The other day, two of them were successfully destroyed by units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine in the area of the Antonivsky Bridge.
According to detailed information, damage to the enemy's manpower and equipment in the previous days has been confirmed. Thus, in the Kherson region, a column of enemy military equipment was destroyed, in Zaporizhzhya - an ammunition depot, 5 units of weapons and military equipment of various types were destroyed, and up to 120 servicemen were wounded.
During the day, the aviation of the Defense Forces struck the enemy 21 times, of which: 15 - on the areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, 2 - on platoon strongholds, and 4 - on the positions of the enemy's air defense complexes.
Over the past day, soldiers of the missile troops and artillery hit the control post and the anti-aircraft missile installation.
We will remind you that there are currently 2 Russian Kalibr carriers in the Black Sea. The invaders can attack Ukraine with 16 cruise missiles.
