Over the past day, May 22, 216 combat engagements took place on the front line. The enemy launched 83 air strikes and dropped 264 guided aerial bombs. In addition, they deployed 9,753 kamikaze drones and carried out 3,195 attacks on settlements and positions of the Defense Forces, including 34 from multiple launch rocket systems. This was reported by UNN with reference to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Air strikes were carried out in the areas of the settlements of Tovstodubove and Pustohorod in the Sumy region. Aviation, missile forces, and artillery of the Defense Forces hit a command post, nine areas of personnel concentration, and an enemy artillery system.
Over the past day, the losses of the Russian invaders amounted to 950 people. The enemy also lost five tanks, five armored fighting vehicles, 68 artillery systems, one multiple launch rocket system, four air defense systems, four ground robotic systems, 1,819 unmanned aerial vehicles, 201 units of motor vehicles, and five units of special equipment.
The situation on the front sectors is as follows:
In the Pivnichno-Slobozhanskyi and Kursk directions, six combat engagements took place over the past day; the enemy carried out 81 shellings of Ukrainian troop positions and settlements, including one using multiple launch rocket systems, launched five air strikes, and deployed 10 guided bombs.
In the Pivdenno-Slobozhanskyi direction, the enemy stormed the positions of Ukrainian units seven times in the areas of the settlements of Ternove, Graniv, and Novovasylivka.
In the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian defenders stopped five enemy attacks near the settlements of Hlushkivka and Novoplatonivka.
In the Lyman direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 12 attempts by the invaders to advance in the areas of the settlements of Torske, Ozerne, Drobysheve, Dibrova, Yampil, and Lyman.
In the Slovyansk direction, during the past day, the Defense Forces stopped three attempts by the occupiers to advance in the areas of the settlements of Zakitne and Rai-Oleksandrivka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, Ukrainian defenders stopped two enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Nykyforivka and Tykhonivka.
In the Kostiantynivka direction, the enemy carried out 16 attacks near Kostiantynivka, Pleshchiivka, Illinivka, Ivanopillia, Novodmytrivka, and Stepanivka.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the Defense Forces stopped 42 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Vilne, Bilytske, Rodynske, Oleksandrivka, Shevchenko, Pokrovsk, Hryshyne, Toretske, Dorozhnie, Novooleksandrivka, Udachne, Kucheriv Yar, Novopavlivka, and Novopidhorodne.
In the Oleksandrivka direction, the enemy attacked twice in the areas of the settlements of Verbove and Zaporizke.
In the Huiaipole direction, 32 attacks by the occupiers took place in the areas of the settlements of Nove Zaporizhzhia, Zlahoda, Solodke, Staroukrainka, Dobropillia, Hirke, Zaliznychne, Vozdvyzhivka, Olenokostiantynivka, and Charivne.
In the Orikhiv direction, the enemy did not conduct active operations.
In the Prydniprovskyi direction, Ukrainian units stopped two enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Hola Prystan and Zaplava.
Recall
According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the Russian elite admits that the war in Ukraine is "not going very well."