Ukrainian defenders over the past day repulsed enemy attacks in about 13 settlements in the Donbass. The enemy is conducting offensive operations in Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Limansky and is trying to improve the tactical situation in the Kupyansky directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said, informing about the operational situation regarding the Russian invasion.
Thus, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of infidels in the areas of the settlements of Stelmahovka and Krasnopopovka in the Luhansk region and Soledar, Krasnaya Gora, Podgorodnoye, Bakhmut. In addition, the rashists could not attack Klishchievka, Vodiane, Pervomaiskoye, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Pobeda and Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk region.
"The enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdeevsky and Limansky and is trying to improve the tactical situation in the Kupyansky directions. In the Volynsky, Polessky, Seversky and Slobozhansky directions, signs of the formation of enemy offensive groupings have not been found." noted in the message.
In the Novopavlovsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson directions, the enemy is defending on previously occupied lines, carrying out engineering equipment for positions. According to the General Staff, over the past day, the Russian invaders launched 7 missile and 31 air strikes and carried out 73 shelling from multiple launch rocket systems.
"There is a threat of air and missile strikes by the enemy on critical infrastructure facilities throughout Ukraine," the message says.