The three hundred and sixteenth day (316) of the large-scale Russian invasion continues.
The enemy continues to carry out mobilization measures to maintain the offensive potential and replenish losses.
During the day, the enemy carried out 8 airstrikes and carried out more than 10 MLRS attacks.
The threat of enemy air and missile strikes on critical infrastructure objects remains throughout the territory of Ukraine.
The main efforts of the Russian occupiers are focused on attempts to capture the Donetsk region within the administrative border completely.
They are conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Lyman directions.
The enemy is unsuccessfully trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyansk and Avdiivka directions. On Novopavlivskyi, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson - it is being defended.
There are no significant changes in the Volyn, Polissya, Siversk and Slobozhansk directions. There were no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups. At the same time, the invaders are shelling the positions of our troops and civilian objects along the entire contact line.
In the direction of Slobozhanskyi, the districts of Starytsa, Ohirtseve, Vovchansk, Ustynivka, and Fiholivka of Kharkiv region were damaged by fire.
In the Kupyansk direction, Dvorichna, Vilshana, Kupyansk, Kislivka, Kotlyarivka, Krokhmalne and Berestove in the Kharkiv region and Novoselivske and Stelmakhivka in the Luhansk region came under the influence of fire.
In the Lyman direction, enemy shelling was recorded in Makiivka, Ploshchanka, Kuzmyne, and Dibrove, Luhansk region.
In the direction of Bakhmut, the occupiers shelled Spirne, Berestove, Bilohorivka, Vesele, Soledar, Krasna Hora, Bakhmut, Bila Hora, Kurdyumivka, Diliivka, Pivnichne, Mayorsk and New York in Donetsk region.
Avdiivka, Nevelske, Maryinka, and Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk region were damaged by fire in the Avdiivka region.
In the direction of Novopavlivsk, the enemy shelled Mykilske, Vuhledar and Prechystivka in Donetsk region.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the areas of Zelene Pole and Novopil settlements of the Donetsk region came under enemy artillery fire; Hulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Charivne, Shcherbaky, and Stepove in Zaporizhzhia and Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
In the Kherson direction, the enemy does not stop terrorizing the civilian population. The artillery shelling damaged civil infrastructure and civilians in Chornobayivka and Kherson.
The military-political leadership of the Russian federation is taking measures to prevent the mass departure of men of conscription age abroad before the next wave of mobilization, which is expected in January of this year. A complete ban on crossing the state border for men of conscription age is not excluded.
Forced passporting of the population in the temporarily occupied and occupied territories of the Luhansk region continues. Thus, banking institutions in the occupied region require passports of the Russian Federation to issue payment cards.
During the day, Ukrainian aviation made 15 strikes on enemy concentration areas, as well as 3 strikes on the positions of its anti-aircraft missile systems.
At the same time, our defenders shot down an enemy Su-25 aircraft and a Mi-8 helicopter.
Units of missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out fire damage to the area where the occupiers' manpower and military equipment were concentrated.
Glory to Ukraine!
