General Staff: Invaders focusing main efforts on encirclement of Kyiv and Kharkiv

“The ninth day of the Ukrainian people heroic confrontation with the Russian military invasion is coming to an end. The enemy continues the offensive operation against Ukraine with the support of aircraft and uses high-precision weapons,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted on Facebook.

As noted, the main efforts of the occupiers were to surround the cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv. In addition, the enemy intends to reach the administrative borders in Luhansk and Donetsk regions and further create a land corridor with the occupied Crimea.

In Polissya, the enemy began engineering work to block roads in the Borodyanka area, probably with the aim of further moving in the direction of Kyiv. Occupation units were stopped in the Shybene and Katiuzhanka districts. In the area of ​​Dymer, the occupier continues to create a defense area.

In Donetsk direction, the enemy is actively using the mobilization resource from the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions as part of the advanced units of the Russian Armed Forces, which operate in the directions of Kharkiv and Mariupol. The occupiers do not stop trying to identify weaknesses in the defense of Mariupol.

In the Tavriya direction, the enemy units of the 58th Army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces are trying to continue the offensive in the direction of Zaporizhzhia, and units of the 20th Army of the Western Military District are trying to bypass Kharkiv and move southwest.

In the Black Sea, after the demonstration of readiness to land paratroopers in the Odesa-Zatoka area, the invader withdrew a group of ships and landing ships west of the Crimean peninsula due to worsening weather conditions.

The Kyiv Defense Group continues to repel the enemy's offensive, defeat its offensive group, and maintain certain boundaries.

BTGs from 38 separate airborne brigade of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to be located on the Belarusian border with Ukraine.

According to the information of Ukraine’s General Staff, work is underway to persuade personnel to carry out tasks on the territory of Ukraine as a significant number of servicemen refuses to carry out criminal orders.

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