In the Luhansk region, battles continue for the settlements of Voevodovka, Toshkovka and Nizhne, and in the direction of Severodonetsk, the enemy continues to prepare for offensive operations. In the previous 24 hours alone, the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled fifteen enemy attacks, head of the Lugansk military administration Serhiy Gaidai said on Tuesday morning..

“Over the previous day, fifteen enemy attacks were successfully repulsed in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions: one anti-aircraft missile system, nine tanks, three artillery systems, 25 units of armored combat vehicles, three units of special engineering equipment and three enemy vehicles were destroyed,” the head of the region specified..

According to him, on May 9, the Russians massively fired at all possible exit routes from the territory of the region.. Including, it was dangerous in Belogorovka and Shipilovo.

“Cities and villages of the region were shelled 22 times over the past day. There is destruction of housing in Severodonetsk and Lysychansk.

In addition, in Severodonetsk, an enemy shell hit the building of the local cell of the National Police, there was a significant fire, due to which the premises and equipment were destroyed,” Gaidai added..

The attackers also opened fire on Shipilov when they tried to inspect the destroyed buildings, under the rubble of which, probably, people remain..

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Earlier, Sergei Gaidai reported that the pontoon crossing, which the invaders built on May 8 across the Seversky Donets near Belogorivka in the Luhansk region, was destroyed.