The grouping of defense forces continues to conduct a defense operation within certain operational zones. Ukraine continues to resist the Russian invasion, reports the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“In the Northern and North-Western directions, combat operations continue in the Polessky and Volyn operational regions, as well as along the state border of Ukraine and in the areas of the settlements of Nizhyn, Ivanitsa, Trostyanets, the defense of the city of Chernihiv is underway,” the report says..

The grouping of forces and means of defense of Kyiv repels the offensive of the invaders and inflicts fire damage on its offensive groups.

The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repel missile and bomb strikes and destroy the means of air attack of the occupiers, provide air defense cover for important infrastructure facilities of Ukraine and groupings of troops.

According to the General Staff, due to numerous losses of personnel, the enemy continues to carry out covert mobilization under the guise of training camps in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, the Krasnodar Territory and certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The occupiers stepped up recruitment of volunteers for the war on the territory of Ukraine.

“The occupiers do not rule out the possibility of involving up to 800 military personnel of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian-Moldovan Republic in the war with Ukraine, however, the moral and psychological state of this personnel remains at a low level,” the report says..

It is known that in the settlements of the Chernihiv region, temporarily occupied by Russian troops, the invaders, violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, continue to hide weapons and military equipment among residential buildings and in the premises of agricultural facilities..

“According to the available information, panic moods are spreading among the personnel of the occupying forces due to the huge losses of manpower and equipment,” the General Staff noted..

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Earlier it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed hundreds of soldiers of the Russian enemy over the past day and completely defeated two battalion tactical groups. The third BTG suffered significant losses.