Operational information on Russian invasion (September 2)

191st 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 Donetsk oblast and holding the occupied districts of Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, as well as creating favourable conditions for resuming the offensive.

The enemy carries out air and missile strikes on military and civilian objects on the territory of our State.

In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation remains without significant changes. Units of the Armed Forces of the republic of belarus continue to carry out the task of strengthening the protection of the section of the belarusian-Ukrainian border in the Brest and Gomel regions.

The threat of missile and air strikes from the territory and airspace of the republic of belarus remains.

In the Siversky region, the enemy continues to hold separate units of the armed forces of the russian federation in the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions. The enemy shelled the areas of Pushkari, Khrinivka, Senkivka in Chernihiv oblast and Sukhodil, Nova Sloboda and Novovasylivka in Sumy oblast with mortars and barrel artillery.

In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy is conducting combat operations in order to prevent the loss of control over the occupied borders and logistics routes in the Kharkiv oblast. It tries to find weak points in the defense of our troops and improve the tactical position.

In the Kharkiv direction, it carried out shelling from tanks, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of the settlements of Udy, Ruski Tyshky, Cherkasy Tyshki, Pytomnyk, Velyki Prohody, Stary Saltiv, Petrivka, Peremoha, Dementiivka, Pryshyb.

It carried out airstrikes in the areas of Shestakove, Bayrak, Ruski Tyshki and Vesele settlements.

In the Slovyansk direction, it carried out fire damage to military and civilian infrastructure using tanks, barrel artillery and multiple rocket launcher systems in the areas of Dolyna, Krasnopillya, Brazhkivka, and Dibrivne settlements.

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy is concentrating its main efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions. On the Kramatorsk and Novopavlovsk directions, it is trying to improve the tactical position, and is carrying out fire damage to our troops. Attempts are being made to constrain the actions of units of the Defense Forces and prevent them from being diverted to other directions.

In the Kramatorsk direction, it carried out shelling from mortars, tanks, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of Bohorodychne, Hryhorivka, Donetske, Verkhnyokamianske, Ivano-Daryivka, Rozdolivka, and Vesele settlements.

It carried out an airstrike in the area of the settlement of Verkhnokamianske.

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In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy fired mortars, tanks, barrel and jet artillery at the areas of the settlements of Sukha Balka, Yuryivka, Bakhmutske, Mayorsk, Zaytseve, Soledar, Bakhmut, Yakovlivka, Bilohorivka.

It carried out airstrikes in the areas of the settlements of Zaitseve, Vesela Dolyna, Soledar, Bakhmut, and Yakovlivka.

Units of the Defense Forces repelled the enemy’s offensive in the direction of the settlements of Bakhmutske and Bakhmut, as well as Vesela Dolyna and Mayorsk.

In the Avdiivka direction, the enemy fired from the available types of weapons in the areas of Krasnohorivka, Avdiivka, Vesele, Opytne, Vodyane, Tonenke, Pervomaiske, Karlivka settlements.

Our troops successfully repelled the attack of enemy units in the districts of Opytne, Pervomaiske and Nevelske settlements.

The enemy’s assaults, which it tried to carry out in the direction of the settlements of Avdiivka and Krasnohorivka, were also repelled.

In the Novopavlivskyi direction, enemy units fired mortars, tanks, barrel artillery and multiple rocket launchers in the areas of Krasnohorivka, Novomykhailivka, Mykilske, Prechistivka, Velyka Novosilka, Bogoyavlenka, Novomayorsk, Neskuchne. The enemy did not conduct active offensive operations.

Enemy units did not carry out active offensive actions in the Zaporizhzhia direction.

In the South Buh direction, the enemy is concentrating on the defense of previously occupied lines and positions.

Conducted shelling of the positions of our troops and civilian infrastructure from tanks, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of settlements of Stepova Dolyna, Oleksandrivka, Posad-Pokrovske, Prybuzke, Novomykolaivka, Lyubomirivka, Novohryhorivka, Kiselivka, Pervomaiske, Kobzartsi, Partizanske, Chervona Dolyna, Shyroke, Bereznehuvate , Velyke Artakove, Andriyivka, Novoselivka, Shevchenkove, Olhyne, Myrolyubivka, Lyubymivka and Petrivka.

It carried out airstrikes in the areas of the settlements of Lozove, Sukhy Stavok, Velyke Artakove, Khreshchenivka.

It was stopped by the Defense Forces during offensive operations in the direction of the settlement of Potyomkine.

In the Black Sea and Azov sea zones, the enemy’s main efforts are focused on conducting reconnaissance and blocking civilian shipping in the northwestern part of the Black Sea. Carriers of sea-based cruise missiles of the Kalibr type are ready to use high-precision weapons.

Defense forces continue to attack enemy targets. Thus, in the settlement of Novoosinivka, Kharkiv Region, as a result of effective fire damage inflicted by the Defense Forces on the night of August 31 to September 1, the enemy’s fuel and oil warehouse was destroyed. The number of destroyed equipment and personnel is being clarified.

In the town of Tavriysk, Kherson oblast, on August 30, as a result of the fire damage to the location of the enemy at the former motor-transport company, the enemy lost more than 20 pieces of weapons and military equipment, the loss of manpower – to be clarified.

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