Russia continues its offensive in the Eastern Operational Zone for full control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the maintenance of the land border with Crimea.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the Belarusian military continues to strengthen areas of the border with Ukraine. They also checked the readiness of the air force and the air defense, according to the report of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The threat of missile strikes from Belarusian territory remains.
In the Siversk direction, the enemy is trying to prevent the moving of reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the Eastern Operational Zone. In the border areas with Ukraine of the Bryansk and Kursk regions, russia has placed some parts of units to restorate combat capability.
"In the future, it‘s possible that the enemy will carry out demonstrations and provocations in the regions adjacent to the State border of Ukraine. In particular, there is a possibility of shelling of units of the Defense Forces and infrastructure in border areas," said the General Staff.
In the Slobozhansky direction, russia's main efforts are focused on maintaining occupied positions on the north and southeast of Kharkiv. The enemy is trying to deploy additional artillery units.
In the Izium direction, the enemy is operating with units of the 1st panzer army, the 20th all-Military Army of the Western Military District, the 35th All-Military Army, the 68th Army Corps of the Eastern Military District and the Airborne Troops. The enemy's main efforts are focused on conducting reconnaissance and inflicting fire damage on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. To provide additional transfer of troops in the Izyum direction, the occupiers provide additional pontoon-bridge crossings across the Seversky Donets River.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, enemy units are trying to launch an offensive in the Lyman, Severodonetsk, and Popasna directions. The enemy continues to try to establish full control over the settlements of Rubizhne and Popasna and is preparing to advance on Severodonetsk. Artillery shelling of our troops continues.
In the Kurakhiv direction, the occupiers' groups were reinforced by additional artillery units from the 1st Army Corps.
In the Mariupol direction, the enemy continued to launch air strikes on Mariupol. He focused his main efforts on blocking the units of our troops in the area of the “Azovstal” plant, and also transferred some units from Mariupol to Kurakhiv direction.
The enemy continues to launch air and missile strikes to destroy civilian infrastructure and disrupt the logistical support of our troops," - added the General Staff.
In the South Bug and Bessarabian areas, russia is trying to fight with the existing set of forces in order to improve its tactical position. Continues to regroup, increases the system of fire damage, improves the engineering equipment of positions.
To increase the logistics system of the troops, the occupiers deployed assembly points for damaged vehicles and points for repair and restoration of equipment.
In the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova, the russian federation continues to disseminate information through the pro-Kremlin media about the threat to the population of the region by Ukraine. In particular, there are reports of the next case of Ukrainian UAVs using over ammunition depots.
"Defenders of Ukraine hold certain defensive lines, destroy the enemy, continue to move deep into the occupied territories and liberate settlements," the statement emphasizes.
In April, the russians resumed shelling of the border areas of Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions. The fire in the east and south is ongoing, and missile strikes are being launched in other regions, including Kyiv.