The Russian Federation conducts aerial reconnaissance in Ukraine, and the Armed Forces attacked two areas where the enemy's personnel, weapons and military equipment are concentrated. This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

 The Russian Federation continues armed aggression against our state. The Russian occupiers are trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, they are concentrating their efforts on restraining the actions of units of the defense forces of Ukraine, carrying out engineering equipment of the defense line, continuing offensive actions in certain areas, conducting aerial reconnaissance. In order to equip and replenish the losses of its units, the enemy moves personnel and military equipment to the areas of hostilities.

 Over the course of a day, the enemy launched about 15 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas.

 In the Volyn and Poliske directions, the situation remains without significant changes, no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups have been detected.

 The Republic of Belarus continues to support the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, providing it with infrastructure, territory and airspace. The threat of missile and air strikes against the enemy, including the use of attack UAVs from the territory and airspace of the Republic of Belarus, remains.

 In the Siverskyi direction, the enemy fired from rocket salvo systems in the area of ​​the settlement of Kustine, Sumy region.

On the Slobozhansk direction in the border areas of the Belgorod region, the enemy continues to detain groups of troops for demonstration actions. The occupiers are periodically shelling the positions of our troops, as well as settlements in the Kharkiv region near the state border of Ukraine.

 On the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions, the enemy is conducting defense and shelling with tanks, mortars and barrel artillery, in particular, the areas of the settlements of Kislivka, Krokhmalne, Berestov in the Kharkiv region, as well as Makiivka and Bilogorivka in the Luhansk region.

 In the Bakhmut and Avdiiv areas, the enemy is concentrating its main efforts on conducting offensive operations. Fired tanks and artillery of various types in the areas of Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Zelenopillya, Avdiivka, Vodyane, Pershotravneve, and Nevelske settlements.

 In the Novopavliv and Zaporizhzhya directions, the enemy shelled the positions of the Defense Forces of Ukraine with regard to tanks and the entire spectrum of artillery. Areas of about ten settlements were affected by the enemy's artillery fire. In particular, Orihiv, Zaporizhzhya region.

 In the Kryvyi Rih and Kherson directions, the enemy is conducting positional defense, improving fortification equipment and logistical support of advanced units, and does not stop artillery shelling of the positions of our troops and settlements on the right bank of the Dnipro River. He used barrel and jet artillery for shelling the settlements of Maryivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region, as well as Tokarivka, Antonivka, Dniprovske in the Kherson region, and Kherson.

 In the town of Yenakievo in Donetsk region, the training of those forcibly mobilized from the territory of the temporarily occupied region to the ranks of the Russian occupation forces continues. As a feature, the placement of so-called instructors in the premises of the local polytechnic technical school, where students study at the same time, is emphasized.

 Separate units from the territory of the Chechen Republic and from the private military company "Wagner" were moved to the temporarily occupied city of Debaltseve, Donetsk region, in order to increase the grouping of troops.

 In addition, the regrouping of individual units of the occupiers in the area of ​​the settlement of Molochansk, Zaporizhzhya region, was revealed. According to available information, individual positions have been released and individual roadblocks have been removed.

 During the current day, the aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out 2 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the enemy.