According to the Ukrainian General Staff, as of Thursday morning, the occupying forces, having failed in almost all areas in which they were progressing, resumed tactics of night shell bombing in residential areas of large cities.
As a result, the enemy continues to demonstrate activity along the state border in the direction of Volyn [ie, in a western part of Ukraine].
In the Polissya [northern] area, the enemy is trying to carry out offensive operations in the area of Kozarovychi, Vyshhorod, Fastiv, and Obukhiv. Further deployment of field logistics camps in the Borodyanka, Katyuzhanka and Gavronshchyna districts was noted. [Surrounding Kyiv.]
In the northern part of Ukraine, the Russian occupiers, lacking success in the Ukrainian cities of Chernihiv, Nizhyn and Sumy, Lebedyn and Okhtyrka, are trying to avoid clashes with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and are trying to reach the northern outskirts of Kiev.
Enemy units and subdivisions were concentrated in the areas of Baryshevka, Nova Basan, and Lyubech. [At a distance around Kyiv.]
"Part of the forces to the battalion tactical group from #200 of the separate motorized brigade of 14 AK Northern Fleet of the Russian Armed Forces, which has actually lost combat capability, is regrouping and trying to attack in the direction of Brovary and Kyiv," - said the General Staff.
In Slobozhansky area [in the northeast around Kharkiv], the enemy is conducting an offensive operation in the areas of Zolochiv, Kharkiv, and Balakliya, trying to continue the offensive in the direction of Lozova [towards the south], and catastrophically in need of replenishment of lost equipment and personnel.
In Donetsk [eastern] area, the occupiers of the 1st and 2nd AKs, with the support of artillery, continue their offensive operations in the areas of Novy Aidar, Volnovakha and Mariupol [near the Black Sea]. The enemy did not achieve the main goal of capturing Mariupol and reaching the administrative border of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
In Tavriya [south central] area, the enemy has does not abandoned attempts to conduct an offensive operation. After regrouping and introducing a part of operational reserves, the main efforts in the direction of Mykolaiv - Voznesensk were concentrated.
In the Black Sea Operational Zone, naval groups of the Russia Black Sea Fleet continue to fire on civilian ships and capture sailors.
At the same time, for the first time, according to the General Staff, Russian war criminals have acknowledged the fact of mass deaths and injuries of their own soldiers. During the evening briefing, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published his own information about the losses of the Russian occupation forces in Ukraine: 498 dead and 1,597 wounded.
"Part of the enemy forces continues to operate in the [south central] areas of Energodar, Vasylivka, Tokmak, Novopetrivka. After the regrouping and introducing operational reserves from the 205th separate motorized brigade of the 49th General Army of the Russian Armed Forces, the offensive continues in order to reach the outskirts of Zaporozhye and Mariupol," the statement said.
To ensure further landing of tactical airborne troops from the 10th special brigade of the [Russian Federation] RF Armed Forces in the area of Balovnoe, [north of Mykolaiv] the invader landed a small group of airborne soldiers, which was destroyed.
In the Black Sea there is a movement of the landing detachment of the Russian Federation Black Sea Fleet, consisting of four large landing ships accompanied by three missile boats, in the direction of Odessa.