179 combat engagements occurred at the front: the enemy launched over 6,000 drones - General Staff
Kyiv • UNN
179 combat engagements took place over the past day; the enemy deployed 6,438 drones and 196 guided aerial bombs. The situation was most intense in the Pokrovsk sector, where 27 invader attacks were repelled.
Since the beginning of the day on June 13, 179 combat engagements have taken place at the front. This was reported by UNN with reference to the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Details
It is noted that the enemy launched 65 air strikes, dropping 196 guided aerial bombs.
In addition, the invaders deployed 6,438 kamikaze drones for strikes and carried out 2,154 shellings of our troops' positions and settlements
Situation by directions
Two combat engagements took place in the Pivnichno-Slobozhanskyi and Kursk directions. The enemy launched three air strikes using nine guided aerial bombs and carried out 57 shellings, including six from multiple launch rocket systems.
In the Pivdenno-Slobozhanskyi direction, the enemy stormed the lines of our units five times near Vovchansk, Izbytske, Zybine, and in the direction of Lyman.
In the Kupiansk direction today, the enemy attacked our positions once in the direction of the settlement of Novoplatonivka.
In the Lyman direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled eleven attempts by the invaders to advance near the settlements of Novyi Myr, Drobysheve, Lyman, Dibrova, Torske, Ozerne, and in the direction of Shyiivka; two more combat engagements are ongoing.
The Defense Forces successfully stopped ten attempts by the invaders to advance in the Sloviansk direction near Zakitne and toward the settlements of Kryva Luka and Rai-Oleksandrivka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, no enemy offensive actions were recorded. In the Kostiantynivka direction, our defenders repelled nine attacks near the settlements of Ivanopillia, Illinivka, Pleshchiivka, and in the direction of Kostiantynivka; two more attacks are ongoing.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the enemy carried out 27 attacks. The occupiers tried to advance in the areas of Vasylivka, Rodynske, Shevchenko, Novopidhorodne, Kotlyne, Udachne, Novopavlivka, and in the direction of Hryshyne, Nove Shakhove, Kucheriv Yar, and Serhiivka.
According to preliminary estimates, enemy losses in this direction amounted to 54 occupiers liquidated and 14 wounded. Our defenders also destroyed four units of motor vehicles and seven units of special equipment. In addition, three artillery systems and one unit of the invaders' motor vehicles were damaged, and 344 unmanned aerial vehicles of various types were destroyed or suppressed
In the Oleksandrivsk direction, our defenders stopped one enemy attack in the area of the settlement of Vorone.
There were 22 combat engagements in the Huliaipole direction in the areas of the settlements of Rybne, Olenokostiantynivka, Huliaipilske, Ternuvate, Zaliznychne, Verkhnia Tersa, Charivne, and in the direction of Dobropillia and Vozdvyzhivka.
Two attempts by the invaders to advance were stopped by our defenders in the Orikhiv direction in the areas of the settlements of Stepove and Stepnohirsk.
In the Prydniprovskyi direction today, the enemy made one attempt to break through our defense in the direction of the Antonivskyi Bridge.
"In other directions, there are currently no changes in the situation, and no attempts at enemy advancement have been recorded," the General Staff added.
Reminder
Details have become known regarding the operation of the new multi-domain center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Phalanx," which launched a series of strikes on bridges in temporarily occupied Crimea. The Ukrainian military is using middle-strike drones to try to block the supply of the Russian army in the Zaporizhzhia direction.