The 231st day of countering the Russian large-scale invasion has started. The enemy is trying to retain the temporarily seized territories, focuses its efforts on attempts to stop the counter-offensive actions of the Defence Forces and tries to advance in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka areas, the General Staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces said on FB.
Russians are shelling the positions of our troops along the contact line, carrying out remote mining of the territory in certain areas and conducting aerial reconnaissance. Attacks civilian infrastructure and civilian homes, violating international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war. Thus, during the past day, the occupiers launched one ballistic and 28 cruise missiles, 20 of which were shot down by Ukrainian air defence units.
The enemy carried out 13 airstrikes and launched more than 40 MLRS attacks. Objects and civilian population of more than forty settlements were affected by these criminal actions. Among them are Lviv, Popivka, Chuhunivka, Ladyzhyn, Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia, Pavlohrad and Nikopol. Also, the enemy used fourteen Iranian kamikaze drones to attack critical infrastructure in Odesa and Mykolaiv Regions, twelve of these UAVs were destroyed.
There remains the threat of air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya areas has not changed significantly.
Lukashenko declares the readiness of the Republic of Belarus to assist the Russian Federation in the war against Ukraine. The defence-industrial complex of Belarus is already involved in the repair of russian equipment damaged during hostilities. In addition, the first batch of twenty T-72 tanks was removed from storage and sent to the Belgorod region.
In other areas, the enemy fired mortars, tanks, barrel and rocket artillery in the vicinity of populated localities:
in the Siversk area - Senkivka of Chernihiv Region and Seredyna-Buda, Novovasylivka and Sorokyne of Sumy Region;
in the Slobozhansk area – Strilecha, Krasne, Ohirtseve, Vovchanski Khutory, Starytsa, Dvorichna and Dvorichne;
in the Kramatorsk area - Pershotravneve, Kovalivka, Terny, Yampolivka, Torske, Serebryanka, Bilohorivka and Siversk;
in the Bakhmut area – Bilohorivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Odradivka, Opytne, Mayorsk Spirne and Yakovlivka;
in the Avdiivka area - Avdiivka, Pervomaiske, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka and Novomykhaylivka;
on the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhya areas – Velyka Novosilka, Neskuchne, Mali Shcherbaki, Orihiv and Chervone.
In the South Buh area, the enemy continues shelling the positions of our units to deter the counterattack along the entire contact line. Areas of more than twenty settlements were affected by the shelling. In particular, Velyke Artakove, Davidiv Brid, Blahodativka, Sukhyy Stavok, Shyroke, Ternovi Pody, Soldatske, Pravdyne and Myrne.
According to available information, the occupiers in Kherson Region continue to raid agricultural enterprises, conduct an inventory of assets there and re-register them under russian legislation.
Over the past day, units of the Defence Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of Mykolayivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Mayorsk, Pervomaiske and Krasnohorivka.
As a result of the successful actions of the Defence Forces of Ukraine and due to a large number of wounded, there is a shortage of medical workers in the temporarily occupied territories of the Luhansk region. To replenish the staff of hospitals, the self-proclaimed leaders of the region sent a request to send medical personnel from the central and eastern regions of the Russian Federation.
The Ukrainian aviation carried out 15 strikes during the day. 13 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as two enemy air defence systems, have been damaged.
Over the past day, missile forces and artillery have hit 12 control points, seventeen areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, four ammunition warehouses, as well as more than 20 other important enemy facilities.