War update: Ukraine Army repels 39 enemy attacks in four directions
The relevant statement was made by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
In the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have repelled 39 enemy attacks in the aforementioned directions. The fiercest battles are raging for the Donetsk region’s Bakhmut and Marinka.
Russian troops launched one missile strike (on civil infrastructure in the Donetsk region’s Kostiantynivka, using the S-300 missile system) and 45 air strikes, and opened fire with multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) 53 times (namely, on the positions of Ukrainian forces and settlements in the Kherson region). Casualties among civilians were reported; detached houses and other civil infrastructure were damaged.
The threat of Russian air and missile strikes is persisting all over Ukraine, as the enemy continues to use the tactics of terror, the General Staff noted.
Over the past day, Ukraine’s Air Force has launched four strikes on enemy personnel and military equipment clusters. The Ukrainian military also destroyed five different enemy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Ukrainian missile and artillery units hit one Russian air defense missile system, two personnel clusters, one fuel depot, two artillery units in firing position, and one electronic warfare system.
In the Volyn and Polissia directions, no enemy offensive groupings were detected. Some Russian military units continue staying within the military training grounds of Belarus.
In the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions, Russian troops launched mortar and artillery strikes on the Chernihiv region’s Bleshnia, Leonivka and Krasnyi Khutir; the Sumy region’s Bachivsk, Khodyne, Boiaro-Lezhachi, Volfyne, Bilovody, Popivka, Pavlivka and Basivka; the Kharkiv region’s Veterynarne, Zelene, Hatyshche, Zybyne and Budarky.
In the Kupiansk direction, Russian invaders did not conduct offensive actions. The enemy launched air strikes on such settlements as Masiutivka, Pershotravneve and Terny, as well as mortar and artillery strikes on the Kharkiv region’s Mykolaivka, Krasne Pershe, Fyholivka, Novomlynsk, Dvorichna, Lyman Pershyi and Kyslivka, and the Luhansk region’s Stelmakhivka.
In the Lyman direction, Russian troops conducted unsuccessful offensive actions near the Serebrianske forestry. The enemy launched air strikes near Bilohorivka, Verkhniokamianske and Spirne, as well as artillery strikes on the Luhansk region’s Makiivka, Vesele and Bilohorivka; the Donetsk region’s Yampolivka, Berestove and Spirne.
In the Bakhmut direction, Russian occupiers continue offensive actions in the city of Bakhmut. The enemy launched air strikes on Torske, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Kurdiumivka and Bila Hora. The enemy shelling affected the Donetsk region’s Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Bohdanivka, Bakhmut, Ivanivske, Chasiv Yar, Stupochky, Zalizne and New York.
In the Avdiivka direction, Russian invaders conducted unsuccessful offensive actions near Avdiivka. The enemy opened fire on the Donetsk region’s Berdychi, Avdiivka, Pervomaiske and Nevelske.
In the Marinka direction, Ukraine’s Defense Forces repelled numerous enemy attacks near Marinka. The enemy also shelled the Donetsk region’s Heorhiivka and Pobieda.
In the Shakhtarsk direction, Russian troops conducted unsuccessful offensive actions near Novomykhailivka. The enemy launched air strikes near Prechystivka and Novosilka, and shelled Novomykhailivka, Vuhledar, Prechystivka and Novoukrainka.
In the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions, Russian occupiers continue holding defense. The enemy launched air strikes on Huliaipole, Mala Tokmachka, Stepnohirsk, Kizomys and Stanislav, and shelled the Donetsk region’s Vremivka and Novopil; the Zaporizhzhia region’s Malynivka, Huliaipole, Mykilske, Mala Tokmachka, Orikhiv and Kamianske; the Dnipropetrovsk region’s Marhanets and Nikopol; the Kherson region’s Dudchany, Beryslav, Vesele, Antonivka, Dniprovske, Berehove, Bilozerka, Kizomys, Shyroka Balka, Stanislav, and the city of Kherson.
Over the past three days, Russian occupation authorities have ‘evacuated’ about 300 local residents, namely children, from the Zaporizhzhia region’s temporarily occupied areas to Berdiansk.
