The enemy continues to focus on establishing full control over the territories of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, maintaining the temporarily captured areas of Kherson and parts of Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Mykolaiv regions, creating favorable conditions for resuming the offensive in certain directions, as well as blocking Ukraine's sea lanes in the Black Sea. Air and missile strikes on civilian targets of our state continue, reports the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
No signs of the formation of offensive groupings of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus were found in the Volyn and Polesye directions. The threat of missile and air strikes from the territory of Belarus remains.
In the Seversk direction, the enemy carried out artillery shelling near Kamenskaya Sloboda in the Chernihiv region and Khodinoye and Svarochnoye in the Sumy region. Enemy UAV reconnaissance flights continue.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy shelled Odnorobovka, Sosnovka, Duvanka, Dementievka, Pitomnik, Russian and Cherkasskaya Lozovaya, as well as Cherkassky Tishki, Petrovka, Upper Saltov, Mospanovo, Ivanovka, Korobochkino and Chepol.
In addition, the Russian aggressor launched air strikes near Verkhny Saltov, Gusarovka and Sosnovka. Remote mining of the area near Pobeda and Ukrainka was also recorded.
In the Slavic direction, the enemy used tanks, cannon and rocket artillery for fire impact near Grushuvakha, Krasnopolye, Vernopolye, Rodnoy, Mazanovka and Dolyna.
Russian invaders used incendiary ammunition in the areas of Novaya Dmitrovka and Dubrovno settlements.
Not far from Mazanovka, the enemy tried to go on the offensive, but had no success, retreated.
In the Donetsk direction, the main efforts of the enemy are concentrated on conducting active offensive and assault operations in the Kramatorsk, Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions..
In the Kramatorsk direction, enemy units fired from cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Kramatorsk, Verkhnekamenskoye, Grigorovka, Pereezdnoye and Razdolevka. Near Ivano-Daryevka, with the support of aviation, the enemy conducted unsuccessful assault operations. Took losses and retreated.
In the Bakhmut direction, shelling of military and civilian infrastructure was recorded in the areas of Konstantinovka, Soledar, Shumov, Yakovlevka and Mayorsk. The enemy also launched airstrikes near Yakovlovka and Soledar. He tried to conduct reconnaissance in battle near the Vershina, after a fire defeat, he disappeared. The offensive and assault actions of the invaders in the areas of Soledar, Zaitsev, Mayorsk ended in losses and withdrawal.
In the Avdiivka direction, the enemy, in addition to shelling near Avdiivka, Krasnogorovka, Alexandropol, Vodyanoye, Pollnoe, Novokalinovoe and Novobakhmutovka, launched an airstrike near Marinka. Led an offensive in the Nevelskoye area, hostilities continue.
Artillery shelling was recorded in the Novopavlovsk and Zaporozhye directions near Vladimirovka, Novoukrainka, Pavlovka, Vugledar, Novoselka, Volshebnoye, Vremovka, Kamensky, Dorozhnyanka and Novopol.
The enemy launched air strikes near Novoandreevka, Pavlovka and Poltavka. Conducts an offensive near Novomikhailovka, fighting continues.
In the Yuzhnobuzhsky direction, the main efforts of the enemy are focused on preventing the advance of our troops and conducting aerial reconnaissance of the UAV.
The enemy continues shelling from tanks, cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Stepnaya Dolina, Novaya Zarya, Pribuzhskoye, Shevchenko, Kiselevka, Blagodatnoye, Shirokoye, Kobzartsy, Andreevka, Dobryanka, Osokorovka, Potemkino, Trudolyubovka.
Inflicted air strikes in the areas of Posad-Pokrovsky, Bely Krinitsa and Lozovoy. An unsuccessful attempt at an offensive battle near Novogrigorevka ended for the occupiers with significant losses and flight.
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