In southern Ukraine, Russian invaders carry out air strikes and carry out artillery shelling of positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to deter the counterattacking actions of the Ukrainian army. The enemy actively uses aerial reconnaissance and keeps two carriers of Caliber-type cruise missiles in the Black Sea. This was reported by the press service of the General Staff on Facebook..

According to the military, the enemy is conducting a defensive operation in the South Buzh direction.. Actively uses army aviation. In order to tie down our troops, he carried out artillery shelling in the areas of the settlements of Pribuzhskoye, Posad-Pokrovskoye, Luparevo, Ukrainka, Luch, Mirnoye, Blagodatnoye, Novorossiyskoye, Shirokoye, Partizanskoye, Plotnitskoye and others.

In the Kherson and Nikolaev regions, the Russians continue to carry out airstrikes. In particular, near Belaya Krinitsa, Andreevka, Osokorovka and Olgino.

Also, the invaders conduct aerial reconnaissance of UAVs in the areas of Belogorka, Murakhovka, Novoaleksandrovka, Shevchenkovsky and Nikolaevka.

The General Staff notes that in the Black Sea, two carriers of sea-based cruise missiles of the Caliber type are in readiness for the use of high-precision weapons..

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Earlier it was reported that ten loud explosions were heard in the occupied Melitopol on the evening of August 8.