Over the past day, Ukrainian defenders repelled enemy attacks in areas of 11 settlements in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, according to the morning report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"The enemy continues to focus on conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut direction. He is trying to improve the tactical position of his troops in the Kupyansky, Limansky and Avdeevsky directions. In the Novopavlovsky and Zaporozhye directions, he is defending previously occupied lines. In Kherson, he is regrouping troops and shelling our positions. troops and civilian objects along the line of collision. Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhovka and Belogorovka in the Luhansk region and Razdolivka, Belogorivka, Soledar, Krasnaya Gora, Bakhmut, Klishchievka, Ozeryan Krasnogorovka in the Donetsk region," the report says. message.
It is also noted that no signs of the formation of offensive enemy groupings were found in the Volyn, Polessky, Seversky and Slobozhansky directions. In the Seversky and Slobozhansky directions, mortar and artillery shelling hit the areas of the settlements of Leonovka, Chernihiv region; Free Sloboda, Esman, Yekaterinovka and Shalygino - Sumy and Ogurtsovo, Volchansk and Novomlynsk in the Kharkiv region.
"In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy shelled the districts of more than 15 settlements. Among them are Andreevka, Kupyansk, Kucherivka, Liman Pervy, Olshana, Orlyanskoe, Kislovka and Kotlyarovka in the Kharkiv region and Novoselovskoe and Myasozharovka in the Luhansk region. In the Limansk direction, hostile fire was recorded near Novogorovka , Nevsky, Krasnopopovka, Lugansk region and Ternov and Dibrov, Donetsk region, more than 15 settlements were shelled in the Bakhmut direction, in particular, Berestovo, Belogorovka, Bakhmut, Klishchievka, Kurdyumovka, Stupochki, Belaya Gora. Donetsk region. Also, the enemy launched an airstrike near Belogorovka" , - informed the General Staff.
In the Avdeevka direction, as reported by the General Staff, Vodyanoye, Georgievka, Marinka and Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk region came under fire. Neskuchnoe, Vremevka, Velyka Novoselka and Vuhledar in Donetsk region were hit by fire in the Novopavlovsky direction.
"In the Zaporozhye direction, shelling from tanks, mortars and cannon artillery was recorded in the areas of the settlements of Novoselka and Novopol in the Donetsk region and Olgovskoe, Zheleznodorozhnoe, Orekhov, Novoandreevka, Shcherbaki, Stepnoe and Museevka in the Zaporozhye region. Novotyaginki, Ponyatovka, Daryevka, Sadovoe, Stanislav and Kherson," the report says.