171 combat engagements took place on the frontline yesterday, almost a quarter of them in the Pokrovsk sector, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in a summary as of 8 a.m. on December 27, UNN reports.
In total, 171 combat engagements were registered over the last day
Yesterday, the enemy launched two missile attacks on the positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas using two missiles, as well as 42 air strikes, including the dropping of 55 KABs. In addition, it conducted over 5,700 attacks, including 289 with multiple launch rocket systems, and used about 2,400 kamikaze drones.
Yesterday, the aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces struck ten areas of concentration of enemy personnel and weapons, destroying one command center, one enemy artillery system and one other important enemy object.
The situation is as follows:
Two hostile attacks took place in the Kharkiv sector yesterday in the vicinity of Vovchansk and Starytsia.
Nine occupants' attacks took place in the Kupyansk sector over the last day. Defense forces repelled enemy assaults in the directions of Zakhidne, Lozova and Kruhlyakivka, Bohuslavka and Nova Kruhlyakivka.
With the support of aviation, the enemy attacked 25 times in the Lyman direction. He tried to advance near the settlements of Kopanky, Cherneshchyna, Novosergiivka, Platonivka, Zelenyi Hai, Druzhelyubivka, Makiivka, Terny, Zarichne and Torske.
Yesterday, the aggressor tried to force our defenders from their positions near Bilohorivka and Hryhorivka in the Siversky sector four times by assault. They were unsuccessful.
Four assaults took place in the Kramatorsk sector yesterday near Chasiv Yar, Stupky, Bila Hora and Oleksandr-Shultine.
In the Toretsk sector, the enemy carried out 13 attacks in the vicinity of Diliyivka and Toretsk.
In the Pokrovsk sector, our defenders stopped 42 assault and offensive actions of the aggressor towards Vozdvyzhenka, Myroliubivka, Promin, Lysivka, Zelene, Dachanske, Novyi Trud, Pishchane, Pokrovsk, Novooleynivka, Vovkove, Shevchenko and Novotroitske.
In the Kurakhove sector, the Defense Forces repelled 23 enemy attacks. The enemy concentrated its main offensive efforts in the areas of Petropavlivka, Slovianka, Andriivka and Kurakhove.
On the Vremivsky direction, the enemy made 24 attacks on our positions near the settlements of Yantarne, Vremivka, Kostyantynopil, Novyi Komar and Kostyantynopolske.
The enemy did not conduct active operations in the Huliaipilsky sector.
In the Orikhivsky sector, near Novoandriivka, the invaders made one futile attempt to push our defenders from their positions.
On the Prydniprovsky direction, Russian invaders attacked our positions three times. After suffering losses, they retreated.
No signs of enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn and Polissia directions.
On the border with Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the enemy is actively using artillery and aviation from the territory of the Russian Federation in the vicinity of Ukrainian settlements.
"In the Kursk sector, our defenders repelled 20 enemy attacks yesterday, the enemy fired 424 artillery shells, including 30 from multiple launch rocket systems, carried out 24 air strikes, dropping 34 KABs," the report says.
Our soldiers inflict significant losses in manpower and equipment on the occupation forces and actively undermine the enemy's offensive potential in the rear.