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General Staff: russia continues to prepare for offensive in Slovyansk, Lyman areas

In the Kharkiv region, the enemies launched airstrikes and fired artillery rounds to prevent Ukrainian troops from reaching the state border.

General Staff: russia continues to prepare for offensive in Slovyansk, Lyman areas
Illustrative photo of the occupiers' military equipment
Photo: Max Trebukhov

russia continues to be the most active in the Eastern Operational Area. According to the General Staff of the UAF (Armed Forces of Ukraine) report, as of 6 p.m., the situation in the Volyn and Polissia areas has not changed significantly.

In the Siversk area, the russian enemies fired rounds on Semenivka, Bleshnia, and Hirsk of the Chernihiv region. Also, they conducted missile strikes at targets in the Zhytomyr and Poltava regions.

The General Staff reported that in the Slobozhanshchyna area, the enemies continue to conduct actions to hold the occupied frontiers. The russians launched airstrikes and fired artillery rounds at villages Chornohlazivka, Prudianka, Dementiivka, and Ternova to prevent Ukrainian troops from reaching the state border.

russia continues to prepare units of the occupying forces to resume the offensive in the Sloviansk area. The enemies fired artillery rounds at Velyka Komyshuvakha and Dovhenky in the Kharkiv region during the day.

In the Donetsk area, the enemies are trying to break through the defense of Ukrainian troops and reach the border with the Luhansk region. Therefore, they inflicted fire using the entire spectrum of weapons, including aircraft, on positions of the Defense Forces and civilian targets along the contact line. The civil infrastructure facilities at Vrubivka (Luhansk region) and Bakhmut (Donetsk region) were also hit hy russian weapons.

"The russian enemies continue to prepare for the offensive in the Lyman area," - added the General Staff of the UAF.

With aircraft and artillery support, the russians conducted assault operations at the municipalities of Lypove, Vasylivka, Marinka, and Novomykhailivka in the Donetsk region but had no success. The russians also launched an airstrike on the Mykilske.

There was no offensive in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia areas. However, the russians shelled the civilian infrastructure facilities in Vremivka (Donetsk region), Olhivske, Zatyshshia, HulIay-Pole, Orikhiv, Novodanylivka, and Kamianske of the Zaporizhia region.

The occupiers also did not conduct active war actions in the Pivdennyi Buh area. Instead, they focused on maintaining the occupied frontiers and conducting reconnaissance and engineering equipping of positions. Nevertheless, the russians continue to fire mortar and artillery rounds at municipalities close to the contact line.

In addition, the occupying command continues hidden mobilization. The russians are trying to make people from the temporarily occupied territories join the russian armed forces. They are forming a reserve of the 36th combined-arms army and are using military transport aircraft to transfer personnel and material and technical means to the Ukrainian border areas.

The occupiers are also "nationalizing" telecommunications companies in the occupied territories.

Today in the Vinnytsia region, Air Defense Unit shot down an enemy missile. In addition, the municipality on the border of the Kharkiv and Sumy regions suffered a missile attack launched from a helicopter.

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