The three hundred and fourteenth day of the large-scale Russian invasion continues.
The Russian occupiers continue to wage full-scale armed aggression against our state. The enemy does not give up its plans to enter the administrative border of the Donetsk region. The main efforts are focused on maintaining offensive potential and replenishing losses.
In order to exert pressure on the population of our country, the enemy carries out air and missile strikes, as well as carries out artillery shelling of critical infrastructure and population centers on the territory of Ukraine, violating the norms of international humanitarian law, laws, and customs of warfare.
During this day, the enemy carried out 8 airstrikes and launched 18 attacks from rocket salvo systems.
The threat of enemy air and missile strikes on critical infrastructure remains throughout Ukraine.
The enemy, trying to take full control of the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, is concentrating its efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut direction. The Russian occupiers are trying to improve the tactical position in the Lyman and Avdiivka directions, they are strengthening the groups in the Novopavliv direction at the expense of units transferred from the Kherson direction.
The situation remains unchanged in the Volyn, Polissya, Siversk, and Slobozhansk areas. The Russian occupiers maintain a military presence in the border regions of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation. There were no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups.
The enemy fired from the entire range of artillery in the areas of the settlements of Strelecha, Krasne, Zelene, Ternova, Staritsa, Ohirtseve, Vovchansk, Karaichne, Okhrimivka, Ambarne of the Kharkiv region.
In other directions, the enemy defends previously occupied lines, concentrates efforts on restraining the actions of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, and fires at the positions of our troops and civilian objects along the contact line.
On the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions, the areas of 14 settlements were shelled by mortars, barrel, and jet artillery, in particular: Novomlynsk, Tavilzhanka, Dvorichna, Kupyansk, Kotlyarivka, Tabaivka, Pershotravneve of the Kharkiv region and Makiivka, Ploshanka, Dibrova of the Luhansk region.
In the Bakhmut and Avdiiv directions, the enemy fired at the positions of our troops from tanks and artillery of various types in the areas of more than 20 settlements, in particular: Spirne, Bilogorivka, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Vodyane, and Maryinka of the Donetsk region.
In the direction of Novopavlivsk, the enemy fired from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of Vremivka, Velyka Novosilka, Neskuchne, Vugledar, Mykilske settlements of the Donetsk region.
In the Zaporizhia and Kherson directions, the enemy shelled the positions of our troops with tanks and the entire range of artillery in the areas of more than 25 settlements, and also continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of cities and towns along the right bank of the Dnieper River. The civilian infrastructure of the settlements: Kherson, Molodizhne, Antonivka, and Beryslav of the Kherson region was damaged by artillery shelling.
During the day, the aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out 4 strikes on areas where the enemy's personnel, weapons, and military equipment were concentrated.
During the current day, units of missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out fire damage to 2 control points and 4 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Russian occupiers.
Glory to UKraine!
