Russian troops have increased the use of aircraft to destroy the critical infrastructure of municipalities within the area of active war actions. The General Staff of the UAF (Armed Forces of Ukraine) reports it on Facebook while telling about the 89th day of the heroic opposition of the Ukrainian people to the military invasion of the rf.
In the Volyn and Polissia areas, the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus are conducting intensive reconnaissance. Also, additional units are being deployed in the border areas of the Homel region. The threat of air and missile strikes from the territory of Belarus remained.
The situation in the Siversk area has not changed significantly.
In the Slobozhanshchyna area, the enemy, using forces of the 6th combined-arms army of the Western Military District and the Baltic Fleet, is fighting to maintain the previously occupied frontiers in the Kharkiv area. While strengthening the police-managed regime, the enemy units set up checkpoints and fortifications on access roads and near the municipalities of Velykyi Burluk, Kapitolivka, Mykhailivka, Levkivka, Zabavne, and Kupiansk.
The russian enemy is preparing to resume the offensive in the Sloviansk area with the help of separate units of the Western Military District, the 11th Army Corps of the Baltic Fleet, and the Eastern and Central Military Districts. The russians attempted offensive operations in the area of the village Dovhenke. The units of the Defense Forces fought back the offensive; the enemy suffered losses and retreated.
In the Donetsk area, the russians do not stop trying to break through the defense of Ukrainian troops and reach the administrative borders of the Luhansk region.
There were no active war actions in the Lyman area. However, the russian occupiers fired rounds at the infrastructure objects in the areas of Lyman, Ozerne, and Dibrova.
In the Sievierodonetsk area, the enemies concentrated their efforts on Sievierodonetsk. In addition, the russians conducted assault operations in the area of Toshkivka.
In the Bakhmut area, the enemies conducted war actions in Oleksandropillia using artillery support. As a result of the fire damage inflicted by the Defense Forces, the russians suffered losses and retreated. The occupiers also conducted the offensive in Lypovo and Trypillia but failed.
In the Avdiivka, Kurakhiv, Novopavliv, and Zaporizhzhia areas, the intensity of the war actions is decreasing. The enemies are trying to gain a foothold on the achieved frontiers and shelling the positions of the Defense Forces. The russians launched airstrikes on the objects of civilian infrastructure in the areas of Avdiivka, Novoselivka Druha, Novomykhailivka, and Mykilske.
The enemies did not conduct active war actions in the Pivdennyi Buh area. Instead, they focused their primary efforts on maintaining occupied frontiers, running reconnaissance, and equipping their positions. The russians fired rounds at the positions of the Defense Forces with cannon and rocket artillery.
There were no significant movements of personnel and equipment in the Bessarabia direction in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova.
Due to losses during battles, the russians had to withdraw from storage T-62 tanks to form reserve battalion tactical groups that are getting ready to be sent to Ukraine. Besides, equipment damaged and restored at repair and rehabilitation plants is used to replenish weapons and military equipment losses.
Over the past 24hrs, Ukrainian worriers fought back eleven russian attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk areas. They destroyed six tanks, ten armored combat vehicles, and six cars. In addition, air defense units shot down one UAV "Orlan-10," and a russian Su-25 aircraft in the areas mentioned above.
Air units and SAM units of the Air Forces destroyed four enemy cruise missiles.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that from 50 to 100 Ukrainian militaries die in the most challenging area, which is the Eastern area.