The sixty-sixth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. A russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.
russian enemy continues to carry out offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to defeat the Joint Forces, establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and maintain the land route with the occupied Crimea.
russian enemy launches air and missile strikes and launches artillery shelling of civilian and military infrastructure in the depths of Ukraine, the positions of our troops along the line of contact and in the border areas. It is regrouping and strengthening of occupying forces continues.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, russian enemy did not take active action. There have been no significant changes in the situation in these areas.
In the Siversky direction, russian enemy units fired on the positions of our troops in the areas of the settlements of Kindrativka, Katerynivka, Svarkove, and Bilokopytove.
In the Slobozhansky direction, russian enemy is concentrating its main efforts on maintaining its occupied positions and inflicting fire damage on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In order to strengthen the group, russian enemy is moving individual units from the Eastern Military District from the territory of the Belgorod region to the area of the city of Izyum.
russian units tried to launch an offensive in the direction of the settlements of Sulyhivka and Dovhenke, but were unsuccessful. In order to cover the groups of its troops in the Kharkiv and Izyum directions, russian enemy is trying to deploy forces and means of air defense.
In the Eastern Operational Zone, russian enemy continues to advance on the Lyman (in the areas of Yampil, Ozerne, Lyman), Severodonetsk, where it is trying to complete the capture of Rubizhne, Popasna (in the direction of Kalinovo and Popasna) and Kurakhiv (Olenivka and Novomykhailivka) directions. There is no success, the fighting continues.
Artillery shelling of units of Ukrainian troops does not stop in the Zaporizhzhia direction.
In the South Buh direction, russian enemy did not conduct active offensive operations. Isolated attacks on the positions of units of Ukrainian troops are recorded.
In the Bessarabian direction there is without significant changes.
In the Mykolayiv direction, russian enemy intensified air reconnaissance in the operational depth of the defensive positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, presumably in order to expose the presence and nature of the actions of the reserves.
During the previous day, the air defense units of the Air Force and the Land Forces hit ten air targets: one plane and nine UAVs of the Orlan-10 operational and tactical level.
Fourteen enemy attacks were repulsed in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts over the past 24 hours, eleven tanks, seven artillery systems, twenty-eight armoured vehicles and fourteen vehicles were destroyed.
We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!