Ukrainian forces hit enemy's command post, seven personnel and equipment concentration areas

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in a morning update published on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.

"Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian rocket and artillery forces have hit a command post, seven areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, two ammunition depots, as well as an important military object of the occupiers," the report said.

Over the past 24 hours, the enemy has launched a missile strike and carried out 33 attacks using multiple launch rocket systems, in particular, at civilian targets in Kherson.

The enemy continues to conduct offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka areas and tries to improve its tactical position in the Lyman area.

Ukrainian soldiers repelled enemy attacks outside the settlements of Ploshchanka and Chervonopivka in the Luhansk region and Spirne, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Pidhorodne, Bakhmut, Andriivka, Klishchiivka, Avdiivka, Vodiane, Marinka, Pobieda and Zolota Nyva in the Donetsk region.

The situation remains stable in the Volyn, Polissia, Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna directions, with no signs of the enemy forming strike groups.

In other directions, the enemy is defending previously occupied lines, concentrating its efforts on restraining the actions of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.

In northeastern Ukraine, the enemy shelled the areas of the settlements of Mefedivka, Tovstodubove and Vovkivka in the Sumy region, as well as Hlyboke, Starytsia, Ohirtseve and Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region.

In the Kupiansk area, the enemy shelled the areas of the settlements of Novomlynsk, Tavilzhanka, Dvorichne, Kupiansk, Tabaivka, Krokhmalne, Berestove and Pershotravneve in the Kharkiv region and Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka and Kolomyichykha in the Luhansk region.

In the Lyman area, Ploshanka and Dibrova in the Luhansk region, as well as Yampolivka, Torske and Hryhorivka in the Donetsk region, came under fire.

In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy shelled the areas of the settlements of Spirne, Berestove, Bilohorivka, Soledar, Pidhorodne, Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar, Opytne, Stupochky, Klishchiivka, Andriivka, Bila Hora, Oleksandro-Shultye, Kurdiumivka, Ozarianivka, Maiorsk and New York in the Donetsk region.

In the Avdiivka area, the enemy fired at Vodiane, Pervomaiske, Marinka and Novomykhailivka in the Donetsk region.

In the Novopavlivka direction, the enemy shelled Vuhledar, Novoukrayinka, Prechystivka, Zolota Nyva, Vremivka and Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region.

In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy fired tanks and rocket artillery outside the settlements of Temyrivka, Olhivske, Poltavka, Malynivka, Dorozhnianka, Bilohiria, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanylivka, Novoandriivka, Shcherbaky, Kamianske and Plavni in the Zaporizhzhia region.

In the Kherson direction, the enemy continues mortar and artillery shelling of populated areas along the right bank of the Dnipro River. In particular, affected settlements include Chervonohryhorivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Antonivka in the Kherson region and the city of Kherson. Civilian casualties were recorded.

There remains the danger of the enemy launching air and missile strikes on the country's critical infrastructure.

On December 26, Ukrainian forces struck enemy positions near Chaplynka, Kherson region, killing about 50 occupiers.

The Defense Forces of Ukraine eliminated about 103,220 Russian invaders from February 24 to December 27, including 620 on December 26.