The occupiers continue shelling civilian objects in the Kherson region, and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation attacked the areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of the Russian Federation.
This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
During the day, the enemy launched 3 missile and 22 air strikes. He carried out more than 30 attacks from rocket salvo systems. The threat of further Russian air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine remains high.
The enemy continues to focus its main efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Kupyansk, Lymansk, Bakhmutsk, Avdiivsk and Shakhtarsk directions.
No signs of the formation of offensive groups of the enemy were detected in the Volyn, Poliske, Siversk and Slobozhansk directions. During the day, areas of Karpovychi, Tymonovichi and Yanzhulivka settlements of Chernihiv region were subjected to enemy shelling; Bunyakyne, Atynske, Stukalyvka, Iskryskivshchyna, Zapsillia, Pokrovka and Mayske of Sumy region, as well as more than 20 districts of settlements in Kharkiv region. Among them are Veterinarne, Hlyboke, Morokhovets, Vovchansk, Okhrimivka, Budarky, Bologhivka, Kamianka, Topoli and Zapadne.
On the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions, the enemy shelled the settlements of Dvorichna, Pishchane, Krokhmalne, and Pershotravneve of the Kharkiv region; Stelmakhivka, Ploshanka, Nevske, Chervonopivka, Dibrova in the Luhansk region and Spirne in the Donetsk region.
In the direction of Bakhmut, more than 15 districts of settlements, in particular, Rozdolivka, Vasyukivka, Zaliznyanske, Dubovo-Vasylivka, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Stupochki, Druzhba, Severnye and Zalizne of the Donetsk region, were shelled.
On the Avdiiv and Shakhtar directions, the enemy fired artillery at more than 20 settlements. In particular, these are Novobakhmutivka, Avdiivka, Vodyane, Pervomaiske, Vesele, Bogoyavlenka, Novoukrainka, Prechistivka, Shakhtarske and Neskuchne of the Donetsk region. The enemy also carried out airstrikes in the area of Alexandropol, Avdiivka, Maryinka and Vugledar.
Areas of 23 settlements, including Novopil of Donetsk region, were hit by fire in the Zaporizhzhya region; Olhivske, Biloghirya, Mala Tokmachka, Pavlivka, Novoivanivka, Kamianske, Zaporizhzhya, Vyshchetarasivka and Illinka of the Zaporizhzhya region. Enemy airstrikes were recorded near Novopol in the Donetsk region and Malynyvka and Malaya Tokmachka in the Zaporizhzhya region.
In the Kherson direction, Kherson, as well as the districts of more than 30 settlements, were affected by enemy artillery fire. Among them are Zmiivka, Beryslav, Vesele, Burgunka, Ivanivka, Inzhenerne, Kherson, Bilozerka, Dniprovske, Berehove and Veletenske of the Kherson region.
On February 19, with artillery, the Russian occupation forces shelled the city of Gola Prystan, Kherson region, with the aim of accusing and discrediting the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Also, in order to form a negative attitude towards the Defense Forces of Ukraine, the occupiers continue shelling civilian objects in individual settlements of the Kakhovskyi and Holoprystanskyi districts of the Kherson region.
The enemy continues the forced Russian passporting of Ukrainian citizens in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region. In particular, the Russian occupying so-called "authorities" in Skadovsk and Kalanchak, threatening to confiscate personal property, forces to speed up the process of obtaining Russian passports and reregistration of movable and immovable property businesses under Russian law. In the absence of a Russian passport, pensioners are threatened with being left without pension payments. As a result, local citizens experienced social tension and fear of losing their property and business.
During the day, the Air Force of the Defense Forces carried out 16 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of the occupiers and struck the enemy's anti-aircraft missile system in a firing position.
We will remind that Ukrainian defenders destroyed more than 800 occupiers in the last day. In total, since the beginning of the large-scale invasion, the Russian Federation has already lost 143,680 of its soldiers.
The Ukrainian military continues to destroy the Russian occupiers. On February 19, our defenders repelled 7 enemy attacks in the Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
