The ninety-eighth day of the heroic opposition of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion has begun.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, yesterday the aggressor launched a missile air strike from Su-35 aircraft on Belopolye, Sumy region. Artillery fire inflicted a defeat in the area of \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bthe village of Seredina-Buda, Sumy region.

In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy continued to focus his main efforts on holding positions and conducting reconnaissance.

In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy shelled the settlements of Aleksandrovka, Slatino and Tsirkuny from barrel and rocket artillery. Inflicted strikes by helicopters of army aviation in the areas of settlements Vesele and Ternovoye.

In the Slavic direction, the enemy regrouped troops. As a result of losses in the Dovgensky area, he took separate units for restoration to the city of Izyum. In order to strengthen the security and defense of logistics routes, he strengthened the grouping in Kupyansk.

In the Donetsk direction, the aggressor units, with the support of aviation, are focusing their main efforts on conducting offensive operations..

In order to inflict losses and deplete the personnel of our troops, the enemy fires along the line of collision from mortars, cannon artillery and multiple launch rocket systems.. Repaired the railway bridge near the settlement of Kupyansk to restore the logistics supply of the Kupyansk-Liman railway line.

In the Liman direction, the enemy reinforced the units and regrouped them. With the support of Ka-52 helicopters, the offensive is being carried out in the direction of Liman - Old Caravan, hostilities continue.

In the Severodonetsk direction, the aggressor conducted assault operations in the northern, southern and eastern districts of the city of Severodonetsk, achieved success by individual units, is gaining a foothold in the city center.

In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy is trying to force out units of our troops from their positions in the areas of Belogorovka and Vrubovka. Used assault and army aviation in the areas of the settlements of Kamyshevakh, Berestovo and Nirkovo.

In the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy carried out engineering work to improve the fortifications of the second line of defense. Relocated to the area of \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bthe village of Vasilievka in the T-62 tank battalion and in the motorized rifle battalion.

On the Avdeevsky, Kurakhovsky and Novopavlovsky directions, the enemy holds their positions, inflicts fire damage from mortars and cannon artillery.

In the Yuzhnobuzh direction, the enemy is focusing its main efforts on holding positions and creating additional defense lines.. In the areas of the settlements of Nikolaevka, Novopavlovskoye and Shirokoye, massive shelling was carried out from multiple rocket launchers, cannon artillery and mortars.

In the waters of the Black and Azov Seas, ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation continue to carry out tasks to isolate the combat area and blockade navigation.

Storm tore off anchor 2 enemy sea mines. One was swept away by the waves to the coast of the Odessa region, where it was neutralized by specialists from the subversive team of the Naval Forces, the other was blown up by our soldiers right in the sea.

One carrier of sea-based cruise missiles of the Caliber type is in readiness for the use of missile weapons in the Black Sea.

Over the past 24 hours, nine enemy attacks were repulsed in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, two tanks, thirteen artillery systems, eight armored combat vehicles and six enemy vehicles were destroyed. In the south, in the Kherson and Nikolaev regions, the losses of Russian invaders, except for military equipment, amounted to about seventy people.