Yesterday at 20:15
The one hundred ninety-sixth (196) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
The enemy continues to focus its efforts on establishing full control over the territory of the Donetsk oblast, maintaining the temporarily captured districts of the Kherson oblast, part of the Kharkiv oblast, Zaporizhzhya oblast, and Mykolaiv oblast.
It conducts UAVs aerial reconnaissance with high intensity. The enemy continues to take measures to improve the logistical support of its troops. A further threat of air and missile strikes remains on the entire territory of Ukraine.
Over the past 24 hours, the enemy has launched more than 7 missile and 25 air strikes on military and civilian objects on the territory of Ukraine. To do this, it made up to 20 flights. In particular, infrastructure was affected in the areas of Kharkiv, Velyki Prohody, Bilohirka, Kostromka, Sukhy Stavok and Bezimenne settlements.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly.
In other directions, the enemy fired at military and civilian infrastructure from tanks, combat vehicles, barrel and jet artillery, namely:
in the Siverskyi direction, mortar fire was recorded in the areas of the settlements of Hai in the Chernihiv oblast and Volfyne, Zapsillia, Manukhivka and Stukalivka in the Sumy oblast;
in the Kharkiv direction, the enemy shelled the areas of Prudyanka, Chornohlazivka, Myronivka, Velyki Prohody, Ruska and Cherkaska Lozova, Ruski and Cherkaski Tyshky settlements;
in the Slovyansk direction, the enemy shelled the areas of Slovyansk, Velyka Komyshuvakha, Dolyna, Krasnopillya, Dmytrivka and Dovhenke were shelled by the occupiers;
in the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy shelled the areas of Tetyanivka, Kryva Luka, Spirne, Vesele, and Hryhorivka;
in the Bakhmut direction, fired mortars, tanks, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmutske, Soledar, Bakhmut, New York, Zaitseve, Vesela Dolyna, Mayorsk and Yakovlivka;
in the Avdiyivka direction – Avdiivka, Opytne, Vodyane, Tonenke, and Pervomaiske were fired upon;
the enemy did not conduct active offensive actions in the Novopavlivskyi direction, but the districts of Maryinka, Krasnohorivka, Novomykhailivka, Vuhledar, Solodke, Shevchenko, Zolota Nyva, Pavlivka and Vremivka were affected by fire;
in the Zaporizhzhya direction, the occupiers used mortars, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of Novoandriivka, Mali Shcherbaki, Mala Tokmachka, Shcherbaki, Bilohirya, Novopil, Vilne Pole and Shevchenko settlements;
in the South Buh direction, the enemy fired from barrel and rocket artillery along the entire line of contact. In addition, the enemy carried out aerial reconnaissance by UAVs – they made 34 flies.
Private military companies operating in the temporarily occupied territories, in particular, in the settlement of Oleksandrivka, Kharkiv oblast, are experiencing significant losses. Individual units count more than 40 percent seriously wounded and killed. The bodies of many of the dead have not been identified and are counted as missing.
Units of the Defense Forces hold their positions and prevent the enemy from advancing deep into the territory of Ukraine. Our soldiers managed to successfully repulse enemy attacks in the areas of Hryhorivka, Zaitseve, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Vesela Dolyna and Opytne settlements.
During the day, in order to support the actions of the land grouping, the Air Force of the Defense Forces carried out 27 strikes and destroyed ammunition depots, inflicted damage on almost 40 strongholds and places of accumulation of manpower and equipment.
In general, the air defense units of our troops destroyed: a Su-25 aircraft, a Ka-52 helicopter, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and five X-101 cruise missiles.
Missile troops and artillery of land groupings continue to carry out the tasks of fire damage to manpower and combat equipment, counter-battery combat, disruption of the enemy’s control system and logistical support. In general, as a result of the fire impact, damage was caused to 7 command points and 13 objects of concentration of enemy manpower. Radar stations and communication stations, bridge and pontoon crossings, 3 warehouses of ammunition and fuel and oil of different levels fell into the affected area – thereby significantly reducing the combat and logistical capabilities of the occupiers.
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We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine!
Glory to Ukraine!
