144 battles took place on the front line over the past day, a third of them in the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in its morning summary on March 4, showing a map of hostilities, writes UNN.
The Defense Forces are repelling attempts by the occupiers to improve their position and advance deep into the territory of Ukraine, inflicting significant losses on the enemy in manpower and equipment in various sectors of the front. In total, 144 combat engagements were recorded over the past day.
Yesterday, the enemy launched one missile strike, using one missile, 74 air strikes, and dropped 255 guided aerial bombs. In addition, it used 8445 kamikaze drones and carried out 3453 shellings of settlements and positions of our troops, including 94 with multiple launch rocket systems.
The aggressor carried out air strikes, particularly in the areas of Pysantsi, Vyshneve, Dnipropetrovsk region; Vozdvyzhivka, Verkhnia Tersa, Huliaipilske, Kopani, Charivne, Dolynka, Liubytske, Samiilivka, Novoukrainka, Zelena Dibrova, Hirke, Zaporizhzhia region.
Over the past day, aviation, missile forces, and artillery of the Defense Forces hit five areas of concentration of personnel, weapons, and military equipment of the occupiers.
Situation by directions
In the Northern Slobozhansky and Kursk directions, the enemy launched five air strikes with 15 aerial bombs and carried out 152 shellings, 5 of which were with MLRS, over the past day.
In the Southern Slobozhansky direction, the enemy tried twice to break through the defensive lines of our defenders in the direction of the settlements of Zybine and Kruhle.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attacked five times towards Petropavlivka, Novoplatonivka, and Kurylivka.
In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked ten times. They tried to penetrate our defense towards the settlements of Shyikivka, Stavky, Drobycheve, Lyman.
In the Sloviansk direction, over the past day, our defenders stopped ten attempts by the occupiers to advance in the areas of Zakitne and Platonivka and in the direction of Riznykivka and Rai-Oleksandrivka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the occupiers did not conduct offensive operations.
In the Kostiantynivka direction, the enemy carried out 17 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Kostiantynivka, Pleshchiivka, Sofiivka, Rusyn Yar and towards Illinivka and Novopavlivka.
In the Pokrovsk direction, our defenders stopped 25 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Chervonyi Lyman, Rodynske, Pokrovsk, Udachne, Molodetske and towards the settlements of Kucheriv Yar, Novooleksandrivka and Novopidhorodne.
In the Oleksandrivka direction, the enemy attacked 11 times towards the settlements of Ternove, Vyshneve, Vorone, Verbove and Zlahoda.
In the Huliaipole direction, there were 25 attacks by the occupiers in the areas of Huliaipole and towards the settlements of Zaliznychne, Varvarivka, Huliaipilske, Staroukrainka, Sviatopetrivka, Zelene, Tsvitkove.
In the Orikhiv direction, there were two combat engagements with the enemy in the area of Stepnohirsk and Prymorske.
In the Prydniprovskyi direction, the enemy did not conduct offensive operations.
In the Volyn and Polissia directions, no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected.