Tactical battles continue in the southern sector of the front, and both sides are actively using their strike and attack aircraft.. This was reported by the press service of the Operational Command "

“The enemy is focusing his main efforts on preventing the advance of our troops and holding his own lines of defense.. Attempts to conduct reconnaissance using UAVs, continues shelling from cannon, rocket artillery and tanks along the entire line of contact. During the combat day, he made air attacks by assault and army aviation on our positions. Our losses are not allowed,” the message says.. “Our attack aircraft and a helicopter pair dealt three blows to the accumulation of enemy weapons and equipment and a strong point in the Kherson region, and another strong point in Berislavsky”.

Ukrainian aviation, together with rocket and artillery units, destroyed 24 Russian military personnel, one T-62 tank and five more units of other armored and automotive vehicles in a day. An ammunition depot was destroyed in the Volshebny area, in the Beryslavsky district of Kherson. The final losses of the enemy are being ascertained.

Russians continue to strike civilian infrastructure. Heavy cannon artillery of the 152nd caliber fired at the Ship district of Nikolaev.

" In both cases, there were no losses..

Despite the storm in the Black Sea, about a dozen warships of the Russian fleet continue to maneuver, among them four carriers of Caliber missiles and one large landing ship.

Recall, according to the British Ministry of Defense, the war between Russia and Ukraine will soon enter a new phase.. Russian troops are almost certainly amassing in the south in anticipation of a Ukrainian counteroffensive or in preparation for a possible assault..