Enemy shelling
The General Staff said that today the enemy carried out 70 air strikes and dropped 122 aircraft. In addition, the Russian invaders used 718 kamikaze drones for attacks and carried out more than 3,200 attacks against Ukrainian military positions and populated areas.
The situation on the fronts
On Kharkov direction Russian terrorists stormed the positions of our units in the area of Volchansk and Staritsa four times. Two enemy attacks continue.
“Today, Ukrainian defenders in the Kharkov direction liquidated and wounded 72 invaders, destroyed an armored fighting vehicle, two artillery systems, 32 UAVs, seven vehicles and a unit with special equipment. In addition, two artillery systems and four vehicles of the occupiers were damaged,” the message says.
12 times the enemy attacked our positions on Kupyan direction. Near Peschany, Petropavlovka, Kolesnikovka and Lozovoy, units of the Defense Forces repelled nine attacks. Three battles continue.
In the Liman direction Today, Russian troops attacked Ukrainian defenders 14 times in the areas of Grekovka, Novomikhailovka, Ternov and Torskoye. Fighting continues near Grekovka and in the Ternov area.
On Kramatorian direction Ukrainian soldiers repelled an attempt by the invaders to advance in the direction of the settlement of Bondarnoye.
The enemy continues to put his main efforts on Pokrovsky directionhere, during these days, the attacker attacked our positions 40 times in the areas of the settlements of Mirolyubovka, Luch, Lisovka, Selidovo. The defense forces repulsed 34 enemy attacks, six battles are still ongoing.
According to preliminary estimates, the invaders in this direction have lost 168 soldiers killed and 197 wounded. One tank, four armored fighting vehicles, three artillery systems, six cars and four motorcycles also caused significant damage to four more artillery systems, three cars and four enemy armored fighting vehicles,” the General Staff said.
On Kurakhovsky direction The invader is also quite active – currently 35 enemy attacks have been registered near Gornyak, Novodmitrovka, Ostroy, Ekaterinivka and Antonovka. Our defenders stopped 21 of them. The battles continue in 14 places.
On Vremiv direction Today, the attacker stormed the front line of our defense ten times in the direction of Bogoyavlenka and Velikaya Novoselka. An attack continues.
On Orekhovsky direction The enemies tried to advance to the positions of the Ukrainian troops in the Rabotino area, but failed.
On Dnieper direction The Ukrainian Defense Forces stopped four attempts by the invaders to attack our positions.
“Today, for effective combat work, we celebrate the soldiers of the 35th Separate Marine Brigade named after Rear Admiral Mikhail Ostrogradsky and the 27th Rocket Artillery Brigade named after Koshevoy Ataman Pyotr Kalnyshevsky,” the General Staff summarized.