Over the past day, 261 combat engagements were recorded on the front line. The hottest direction remains Pokrovsk, where Ukrainian troops repelled 42 assaults by Russian forces. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, UNN reports.
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According to the General Staff, over the past day, Russian forces launched two missile strikes using three missiles, carried out 78 airstrikes dropping 267 guided aerial bombs, used 9,923 kamikaze drones, and conducted 3,085 shellings of positions of the Defense Forces and populated areas, including 48 from multiple launch rocket systems.
At the same time, the aviation of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck six areas of concentration of enemy personnel and two other important objects of the Russian troops.
The enemy showed the greatest activity in the Pokrovsk direction, where Ukrainian defenders stopped 42 assault actions. In the Kostiantynivka and Sloviansk directions, the occupiers carried out 25 attacks each, in the Lyman direction - 15, in the Huliaipole direction - 13, in the Southern Slobozhanskyi direction - 11
In addition, Russian forces attacked five times in the Kramatorsk direction, four in the Oleksandrivka direction, five in the Orikhiv direction, and one in the Kupiansk direction. In the Dnipro direction, the enemy did not conduct offensive actions.
In the Northern Slobozhanskyi and Kursk directions, the aggressor carried out two airstrikes, dropped eight guided aerial bombs, and conducted 53 shellings, one of which was from a multiple launch rocket system.
According to the General Staff, over the past day, Russia lost 1,460 soldiers. The Defense Forces also destroyed 28 tanks, 12 armored combat vehicles, 78 artillery systems, three multiple launch rocket systems, two air defense systems, three missiles, 13 ground robotic complexes, 1,688 drones, 541 units of automotive equipment, and three units of special equipment of the enemy.