The enemy does not stop the offensive in the Eastern Operational Zone to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and maintain the land corridor between these territories and the occupied Crimea.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported.
The enemy did not take active action in the Polissya direction. While checking the combat readiness of units that perform tasks to cover the border with Ukraine, covert rotation of these units is not excluded.
The enemy did not take active action in the Siversky direction. Engineering and fortification equipment of positions and lines in the border areas of the Kursk region continues.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy continues artillery shelling of settlements near Kharkiv. In the Izyum direction, he conducts air reconnaissance using UAVs to clarify our troops' positions.
In the area of the settlements of Tsyrkuny and Ruski Tyshky, the occupiers blew up three road bridges in order to slow down the counter-offensive actions of the Defense Forces.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the enemy continues artillery shelling along the contact line and uses operational and tactical aircraft to conduct missile and bomb strikes on the positions of our troops.
Mariupol. Occupiers continue to block units of the Defense Forces in the Azovstal region. They carried out assault operations in order to take control of the plant.
In the Pivdenniy Bug direction, the enemy used artillery on the positions of our troops. He fired at the civilian infrastructure of Mykolayiv with rockets and MLSR.
In Ivano-Kepine, units of the defense forces destroyed a warehouse with ammunition and up to 20 units of enemy military equipment.
In the temporarily occupied Kherson, the invaders took some measures to ensure the activities of the russian occupation forces and support the russian occupation regime. The number of checkpoints and mobile patrols has increased.
During the previous day, the air defense units of the Air Force and the Land Forces hit fourteen Orlan-type UAVs.
In the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, defenders of Ukraine have repulsed eight enemy attacks in the past 24 hours, destroyed three tanks, eight artillery systems, seven units of armored combat vehicles, one car, and three units of special enemy engineering equipment.
Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed that the possible destruction of the Ukrainian military and civilians by the russian occupiers, who remain on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, could put an end to any diplomatic talks with russia.