In the East, the situation remains tense. The Russian invaders are conducting active offensive operations and continue artillery and air attacks on the positions of the Defense Forces. Their main goal is to capture Severodonetsk and advance in the Bakhmut direction, where assault operations are underway in the direction of the settlements of Nirkovo and Nikolaevka. This was reported by the press service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to the Ukrainian military, in the Donetsk direction, the enemy continues to fire at our units along the entire line of collision and inflicts missile and air strikes on settlements.

In the Severodonetsk direction, the enemy is unsuccessfully trying to establish full control over the city of Severodonetsk, where hostilities continue.

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Invaders actively use aviation in the Bakhmut direction. The enemy units tried to conduct assault operations in the direction of the settlements of Nyrkovo and Nikolaevka, but were forced to retreat, having suffered losses.. The enemy is advancing in the direction of Vozdvizhenka - Rota, where he has a partial success and is fixed on the occupied lines.

In the Avdeevka, Kurakhovsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporozhye directions, the enemy is systematically shelling the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to constrain their actions.

According to the General Staff, in the ranks of the enemy, refusals to participate in hostilities by units manned by forcibly mobilized personnel from the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions continue to be recorded..

Over the past day, the Defense Forces in the Donetsk and Lugansk directions repulsed 7 enemy attacks, destroyed 10 tanks, 7 artillery systems, 4 armored combat vehicles, 3 special armored vehicles, 4 vehicles and an enemy ammunition depot. Air defense forces destroyed 5 Orlan-10 drones.

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Earlier it was reported that the invaders were advancing on Slavyansk from the southeast of Izyum.