The two hundred (200) 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 region, and Mykolayiv oblast.
Conducts air reconnaissance, constantly tries to improve the tactical position, takes measures to improve the logistical support of its units, and conducts shelling of the positions of our troops along the entire contact line.
A further threat of air and missile strikes remains on the entire territory of Ukraine.
Over the past 24 hours, the enemy has carried out 16 missile and 34 air strikes on military and civilian objects on the territory of Ukraine. 28 settlements were affected by this. In particular, Slavhorod, Velyka Pysarivka, Velyki Prohody, Avdiyivka, Nevelske, Maryinka, Neskuchne, Velyka Novosilka, Dnipro, and Bruskinske.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly.
In other directions, the enemy fired from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, namely:
in the Siversky direction – near Bilopyllya, Lynove and Hrabovske, Sumy oblast;
in the Kharkiv direction – in the areas of Lyutivka, Tymofiyivka, Dementiyivka, Zolochiv, Sosnivka, Pytomnyk, Ruski Tyshki, Cherkaski Tyshki and Borshcheva settlements;
in the Slovyansk direction – in the areas of the settlements of Slovyansk, Dolyna, Krasnopillya, Velyka Komyshuvakha, Dovhenke and Dmytrivka;
in the Kramatorsk direction – near Kryva Luka, Piskunivka, Sydorove and Rozdolivka;
in the Bakhmut direction – in the areas of Vesela Dolyna, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Yakovlivka, Bilohorivka and Vesele settlements;
in the Avdiyivka direction – near Avdiyivka, Opytne, Vodyane, Pervomaiske, Karlivka and Krasnohorivka;
in the Novopavlivskyi direction – in the areas of Velyki Novosilky, Shevchenko, Vuhledar and Maryinka settlements;
in the Zaporizhzhya region – near Hulyaipole, Rivnopillya, Novosilka, Vilne Pole, Chervone and Malynivka;
in the South Buh direction – in the areas of Myrne, Stepova Dolyna, Bila Krynytsya, Sukhy Stavok, Lyubomirivka, Bezimenne and Nova Zorya settlements.
The enemy continues to suffer losses. In the Kharkiv direction, enemy units from the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division of the 20th Joint Arms Army were left without means of support, and the personnel was in a panicked mood. Also, it is known about numerous sanitary losses of the enemy in the indicated direction. During the previous day, more than 75 wounded Russian soldiers were brought to the village of Valuyka in the Belgorod region, while more than a hundred occupiers were evacuated from Belgorod to Moscow.
Due to significant losses in manpower, the Russian invaders plan to carry out the so-called “mobilization” of the male population in the temporarily captured territories. Now men are forbidden to leave settlements.
In response to the successful actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian invaders are carrying out “countermeasures”. In populated areas, in the temporarily captured territories of Kharkiv and Kherson regions, the occupiers are strengthening the administrative and police regime, entry and exit from populated areas is prohibited, and a curfew has been introduced. In Kherson, a search was made of the residential premises of the Skhidniy microdistrict, from which the Antoniv bridge can be seen. Residents of Kakhovka and Kozatskyi were warned by the Russian military to open fire on them if they approached the crossings.
At the same time, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Sosnivka, Mayorsk, Mykolaivka Druha, Zaitseve, Vesela Dolyna, Soledar, Bakhmut, Pisky, Pervomaiske and Novomykhailivka settlements.
The de-occupation of Ukraine continues. In general, in recent days, about two thousand square kilometers of Ukrainian territory have been freed from Russian occupation. Our units entered Kupyansk, and the liberation of settlements of Kupyansk and Izyum districts of Kharkiv oblast continues.
During the day, to support the actions of the land groupings, the aviation of the Defense Forces carried out 23 strikes, during which four anti-aircraft missile systems were destroyed, four strongholds, and fifteen places where the enemy’s manpower and equipment were concentrated were hit. In addition, our air defense units destroyed two aircraft (Su-25 and Su-34), one Ka-52 helicopter, two UAVs, and one guided air missile.
Missile troops and artillery of land groupings continue to perform tasks of counter-battery combat, fire damage to manpower and combat equipment, disruption of the enemy’s command and control system, and logistical support. As a result of the fire impact, two control points of unmanned aircraft, strongholds, accumulation of weapons, and military equipment of the enemy in the areas of concentration were hit during the day. A pontoon crossing and enemy watercraft with military equipment on them also fell into the affected area.
United we are invincible! Let’s win together!
Glory to Ukraine!