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.. 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 inflicted artillery shelling and air strikes from planes and helicopters.. The main efforts of the Russian unit were concentrated on the Severodonetsk and Bakhmut directions.

In the Liman direction, Russian units launched a missile attack on the settlement of Nikolaevka, 4 km east of Slovyansk.

The enemy still continues to storm the city of Severodonetsk, trying to completely capture it. The fighting continues there, and our soldiers inflict losses on the enemy.

In the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces successfully repelled the Russian offensive in the directions of the settlements of Nagornoye, Berestovoye, Krinichnoye and Roty. In order to strengthen the grouping in the directions of Popasnaya, Nikolaevka, the enemy is redeploying units.

During the day on June 6, in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, Ukrainian defenders repulsed ten enemy attacks, destroyed one tank, three artillery systems, two armored combat vehicles, one car and two ammunition depots. Air defense units shot down two unmanned aerial vehicles of the Orlan-10 type.

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Earlier it was reported that the Russians achieved some success in the east, but lost the advantage in the Black Sea.