The Russian occupiers do not stop offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and hold the land corridor with the temporarily occupied Crimea. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the morning report..

According to the Ukrainian military, constant shelling continues along the entire line of collision and in the depths of the defense of our troops in the Donetsk operational area and in the Slovyansk direction.. On the latter, the Russians are trying to resume offensive operations, as they plan to make another attempt to force the Seversky Donets River.

Active hostilities are also taking place in the Severodonetsk, Bakhmut, Avdeevsky and Kurakhovsky directions. In the Limansky direction, the invaders plan to resume offensive operations in the Yampol-Seversk direction with the crossing of the Seversky Donets River. In this area, there is a concentration of special equipment for building a pontoon-bridge crossing. Additional units of the Russian army are also being transferred there..

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It is also reported that in Mariupol the enemy is demining the port infrastructure.

The total losses of the enemy in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions over the past day are as follows: eleven attacks were repelled, eight tanks, three artillery systems, ten units of armored combat vehicles, three special armored vehicles and six vehicles of the enemy were destroyed.

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Earlier it was reported that in the Kharkiv region, the Russians are trying to repel the de-occupied settlements.