The Ukrainian military shot down three enemy drones, and the occupiers continue to destroy critical infrastructure and shell civilian objects.
This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Russian Federation continues to wage full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. The enemy does not abandon his intentions to destroy the critical infrastructure of our state, continues to strike civilian objects and homes of the civilian population.
The enemy, trying to take full control of the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, continues to focus its main efforts on offensive operations in the Kupyan, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Novopavliv directions.
During the day, the enemy launched 41 air strikes and 3 missile strikes, 2 of which hit the civilian infrastructure of the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region. It also carried out 32 attacks from rocket salvo systems, in particular on the civil infrastructure of Donetsk and Kherson regions. The threat of further Russian air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine remains high.
The situation in the Volyn, Polis, Siver and Slobozhan directions is unchanged, no signs of the formation of offensive groups have been detected.
Areas of more than 20 settlements were shelled, in particular, Gai Chernihiv region; Seredina Buda, Brusky, Atynske, Stepok of the Sumy region, Udy, Veterinary, Kozacha Lopan, Mali Prohody, Staritsa, Dvorichna, Kharkiv region.
In the direction of Bakhmut, the areas of Mykolaivka, Spirne, Vesele, Berestov, Belogorivka, Krasna Gora, Chasiv Yar, Bakhmut, Severnye, Mayorsk of the Donetsk region were hit by shelling.
On the Avdiiv and Novopavliv areas, areas of the settlements of Avdiivka, Pervomaiske, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Bogoyavlenka, Novomykhailivka, Zolota Niva, Prechistivka, and Ugledar of the Donetsk region came under tank, mortar and artillery fire.
In the Zaporizhzhya region, the areas of Vremivka and Novopil settlements of Donetsk region were hit by fire; Olhivske, Gulyaipole, Stepove, Shcherbaki, Novoandriivka, Orihiv, Charivne of the Zaporizhzhya region.
In the Kherson direction, the areas of 16 settlements were affected by enemy fire, in particular: Kachkarivka, Tokarivka, Vesele, Antonivka, Berehove and Kherson.
The enemy continues to suffer losses. To hide the number of dead occupiers, the Russian invaders set up a mobile crematorium on the territory of the Prydniprovska Biotes enterprise in Tokmak, Zaporizhzhya region. Local residents complain of a constant corpse stench in the southeastern part of the city, especially at night.
During this day, the aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine made 13 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of the occupiers and 2 strikes on the positions of anti-aircraft missile systems. During the current day, the air defense forces shot down 3 enemy UAVs: 2 - Orlan-10 type and 1 - Orion.
Units of rocket troops and artillery hit 2 enemy control points, 2 manpower concentration areas, an ammunition depot and an enemy air defense position.
We will remind that the Ukrainian defenders eliminated another 910 occupiers over the past day. A dozen BBMs, 8 artillery systems and 6 Russian drones were also destroyed.
