War update: Ukrainian forces repel 29 enemy attacks on Avdiivka axis
Ukraine's defense forces have repelled enemy attacks in seven sectors of the front, with 98 combat engagements with the invaders recorded in the past 24 hours.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in its morning update published on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.
In total, the enemy carried out launched eight missile strikes (with S-300 air defense missiles against civilian infrastructure in Myrnohrad and Novohradivka, Donetsk region, and Antonivka, Kherson region), four air strikes and 78 attacks using multiple rocket launchers on the positions of Ukrainian forces and populated areas. As a result of Russian terrorist attacks, civilians were killed and injured. Apartment blocks, private houses, schools, kindergartens, a shopping center and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed and damaged.
In the past day, Russian forces launched another aerial attack on Ukraine, using four Shahed-136/131 strike drones. Ukraine's air defense forces shot down all targets.
This morning, the Russian occupiers hit civilian infrastructure in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, with an Iskander ballistic missile.
More than 120 settlements in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions came under artillery fire.
The situation in the area of responsibility of the North operational and strategic group of troops in the Volyn and Polissia sectors remains largely unchanged.
In the Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna sectors, the enemy maintains its military presence in the border areas, conducting subversive activities to prevent the deployment of Ukrainian troops to dangerous sectors and increasing the density of minefields along the state border in the Belgorod region.
In the area of responsibility of the Khortytsia operational and strategic group of troops on the Kupiansk axis, Ukrainian defenders repelled 13 enemy attacks near Tabaivka in the Kharkiv region and Stelmakhivka in the Luhansk region.
In the Lyman sector, Ukrainian soldiers repelled eight enemy attacks near Terny and Torske, Donetsk region.
In the Bakhmut sector, Ukrainian forces repelled 11 enemy attacks near Bohdanivka, Ivanivske, Klishchiivka and Andriivka in the Donetsk region.
In the area of responsibility of the Tavria operational and strategic group of troops in the Avdiivka sector, Ukrainian defenders continue to hold back enemy attempts to encircle Avdiivka. Ukrainian soldiers hold their ground, inflicting significant losses on the invaders. In the past day, Ukraine's defense forces repelled 20 attacks by invaders near Novobakhmutivka, Stepove and Avdiivka and nine attacks outside Opytne, Voiyane, Pervomaiske and Nevelske in the Donetsk region.
In the Mariinka sector, Ukrainian forces continue to hold back enemy forces near Heorhiivka, Pobieda and Novomykhailivka, Donetsk region, where 14 attacks were repelled.
In the Shakhtarske sector, Ukrainian defenders repelled an enemy attack near Zolota Nyva, Donetsk region.
In the Zaporizhzhia sector, Ukrainian soldiers repelled six enemy attacks north of Pryiutne, south of Chervone, and west of Verbove and Robotyne, Zaporizhia region.
In the area of responsibility of the Odesa operational and strategic group of troops in the Kherson sector, the defense forces continue to take measures to expand a bridgehead. Despite significant losses, the enemy still attempts to dislodge Ukrainian units from their positions. In the past day, the enemy carried out four unsuccessful assaults on the positions of Ukrainian troops.
At the same time, Ukrainian soldiers continue to inflict losses in manpower and equipment on the occupying troops, exhausting the enemy along the entire front line.