Russian invaders are trying to move towards the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region and to establish control over the city of Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region.

This was reported in the operational summary on the page of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine..

" Fighting continues for the city of Severodonetsk. In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy launched air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Berestovo, Yakovlevka, Klinovo and Vershina and air and missile strikes near Chasovoy Yar, Novolugansky and Gorsky,"

The invaders continue shelling in the Yuzhnobuzhsky, Kramatorsk, Avdeevsky, Kurakhovsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporozhye directions, launched airstrikes near Novobakhmutovka, Kamenka, Avdiivka, Pavlovka, Ugledar and Shevchenko.

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The enemy is trying to improve the tactical situation in the region of the city by assault actions.. Slavyansk, Donetsk region, and in the Kharkiv region, conducts military operations to contain the units of the Defense Forces and prevent them from reaching the state border. In these areas, the occupiers are actively shelling from cannon and rocket artillery..

Also, Turya, Miropolskoye and Slavgorodskoye of the Sumy region, located near the border with the Russian Federation, were fired from barrel artillery, according to a report..