201 combat engagements recorded on the front, most in the Pokrovsk and Sloviansk directions - General Staff
Kyiv • UNN
Over the past day, 201 combat engagements took place on the front. The most active battles continued in the Pokrovsk and Sloviansk directions.
Since the beginning of this day, 201 combat engagements have occurred. The enemy carried out 65 airstrikes, dropping 182 guided aerial bombs. In addition, they used 5,461 kamikaze drones for strikes and conducted 1,907 shellings of populated areas and positions of our troops. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, writes UNN.
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In the North-Slobozhanskyi and Kursk directions, the enemy did not conduct assault operations since the beginning of the day, but carried out one airstrike using one guided aerial bomb and conducted 30 shellings of our troops' positions and populated areas.
During the day in the South-Slobozhanskyi direction, the enemy stormed the positions of our units nine times near Izbystske, Starytsia, Vilcha, and Sheviakivka.
In the Kupiansk direction, the enemy conducted one assault on the positions of the Defense Forces in the direction of the settlement of Novoplatonivka today.
Six attempts by the invaders to advance were recorded in the Lyman direction in the areas of Hrekivka, Novoselivka, Stavky, and Dibrova. Three combat engagements are ongoing.
In the Sloviansk direction, the Defense Forces successfully stopped 22 attempts by the invaders to advance near Zakitne, Riznykivka, and towards Rai-Oleksandrivka and Kryva Luka; another two combat engagements are ongoing.
In the Kostiantynivka direction, the Defense Forces repelled 12 enemy assaults near the settlements of Oleksandro-Shultyne, Pleshchiivka, Stepanivka, Ivanopillia, Kostiantynivka, and Illinivka.
A total of 22 attacks were carried out by the enemy in the Pokrovsk direction. The occupiers attempted to advance in the areas of the settlements of Novopavlivka, Shevchenko, Kotlyne, Novopidhorodne, Kucheriv Yar, Vilne, Novyi Donbas, Bilytske, Dorozhnie, Hryshyne, Novooleksandrivka, Serhiivka, and Udachne. Two combat engagements are ongoing.
According to preliminary estimates, 33 occupiers were eliminated and 19 were wounded here today; four units of automotive equipment, three units of special equipment, and one enemy electronic warfare station were destroyed. Four artillery systems, two units of automotive equipment, one unit of special equipment, and two enemy unmanned aerial vehicle control points were damaged. 234 unmanned aerial vehicles of various types were destroyed or suppressed
Our defenders repelled two attacks by the occupiers in the Oleksandrivka direction in the areas of Oleksandrohrad and Verbove.
Thirteen attacks by the occupiers occurred in the Huliaipole direction in the areas of the settlements of Zaliznychne, Pryvilne, Novoselivka, Hirke, Rizdvianka, and Kopani.
In the Orikhiv direction, the enemy stormed the positions of our defenders once near the settlement of Plavni.
In the Prydniprovskyi and Kramatorsk directions, no assault actions by the enemy have been recorded since the beginning of the day.
In other directions, no significant changes in the situation occurred.