Russian forces carried out two missile strikes using six missiles, conducted 68 air strikes and dropped 241 guided aerial bombs. In addition, the occupiers deployed 7,444 kamikaze drones and carried out 2,353 attacks on the positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this in an operational update.
Over the day, 197 combat engagements took place along the front line.
In the North Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors the Defence Forces repelled 10 enemy attacks. The enemy carried out an air strike with three guided aerial bombs and conducted 48 attacks, three of them using multiple launch rocket systems.
In the South Slobozhanshchyna sector the Russians assaulted the positions of Ukrainian troops 17 times near Izbytske, Okhrimivka and Volokhivka. One more engagement is ongoing. In the Kupiansk sector two assaults were recorded, towards Zahryzove.
In the Lyman sector Ukrainian troops repelled seven attempts by the enemy to advance in the areas of Shyikivka, Kopanky, Novoselivka, Drobyshcheve and Lyman. In the Sloviansk sector five attacks were stopped near Kryva Luka, Zakitne, Mykolaivka, Rai-Oleksandrivka and Ozerne. Two more assaults took place in the Kramatorsk sector in the areas of Yurkivka and Tykhonivka.
The highest number of attacks was recorded in the Kostiantynivka and Pokrovsk sectors. In the former, the Defence Forces repelled 22 assaults near Kostiantynivka, Illinivka, Mykolaipillia, Novoselivka and Stepanivka. In the latter, 15 attacks were recorded in the areas of Shakhove, Kucheriv Yar, Novyi Donbas, Shevchenko, Bilytske, Myrne, Serhiivka, Udachne and Molodetske. Two engagements there are still ongoing.
According to preliminary data from the General Staff, in the Pokrovsk sector Ukrainian troops "took out" 29 Russian servicemen and wounded another 16. Two artillery systems, four vehicles, two pieces of special equipment, a UAV control point and 27 shelters were also destroyed. In addition, 400 drones of various types were eliminated or suppressed.
In the Oleksandrivka sector three attacks were repelled in the areas of Andriivka-Klevtsove and Nechaivka. In the Huliaipole sector the enemy tried six times to assault positions near Vozdvyzhivka, Rivne, Dobropillia, Dolynka and Verkhniia Tersa; one more attack is ongoing.
In the Orikhiv sector the Defence Forces repelled two assaults in the area of Pavlivka. In the Prydniprovia sector, no offensive actions by Russian forces were recorded over the past day.