The 272nd day of heroic opposition of the Ukrainian nation to the Russian large-scale invasion began. The Russian occupiers continue to conduct offensive operations in certain directions, conduct aerial reconnaissance.
This is stated in the morning summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of invaders in the areas of settlements: Stelmakhovka in the Luhansk region and Disputed, Belogorivka, Yakovlevka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Kamenka, Poprosne, Vesele, Pervomaiskoye, Krasnogorovka, Marinka and Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk region.
Over the past 24 hours, the invaders launched 9 air strikes, 7 missile strikes and carried out more than 50 shelling from multiple launch rocket systems. Civilian infrastructure facilities in the settlements of Kamyshevakh and Novotroitsk Zaporozhye region were damaged.
In the Volynsky, Polessky, Seversky and Slobozhansky directions, the situation has not changed significantly, signs of the formation of enemy offensive groupings have not been detected at the present time.
In the Seversk direction, in the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions, the enemy continues to carry out tasks to cover the Russian-Ukrainian border, to carry out demonstration and provocative actions. He fired at the positions of our units in the area of the village of Rozhkovichi, Sumy region.
In the Kupyansk and Limansk directions, the enemy is defending, firing from tanks, mortars and cannon artillery. In particular, in the areas of the settlements of Orlyanskoye and Lozovaya of the Kharkov region; Novoselovskoe, Stelmahovka, Ploshchadka, Makiivka in the Luhansk region and Terny in the Donetsk region.
On the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions, the enemy is concentrating his efforts on conducting offensive operations. He carried out shelling from tanks and artillery of various types of objects in the areas of seventeen settlements. Among them are Andreevka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Bakhmutskoye, Mayorsk, Poprosnoye, Yakovlevka, Veseloe and Vodyanoye.
On the Novopavlovsk and Zaporozhye directions, the enemy is holding the line. He fired at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on tanks, mortars, cannon and rocket artillery. The areas of 21 settlements, including Bogoyavlenko, Vremevka, Vuhledar, Zolotaya Niva of the Donetsk region, as well as Gulyaipole, Zheleznodorozhnoye, Malinovka, and Mirne of the Zaporozhye region, suffered from enemy artillery fire.
In the Kryvyi Rih and Kherson directions, the enemy is improving fortification equipment and logistical support for advanced units on the defense line and does not stop shelling the positions of our troops and settlements on the right bank of the Dnieper River.
Russian occupiers are firing from cannon and rocket artillery at the areas of the settlements of Antonovka, Zelenovka, Kamyshany and Muzykovka in the Kherson region.
Russian invaders in the village of Strilkove, Genichesk district in the Kherson region, on the territory of a recreation center, set up a dungeon where Ukrainian citizens are kept and tortured.
Over the past day, Ukrainian aviation has attacked the area where enemy personnel, weapons and military equipment are concentrated.
Missile and artillery units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces over the past 24 hours hit the command post, the composition of fuel and lubricants, the area of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment and the electronic warfare station of the Russian invaders.