Enemy attacked Defense Forces positions over 50 times, most active in the Pokrovsk direction - General Staff
Kyiv • UNN
Since the beginning of the day, 51 attacks have been recorded, with the most difficult situation in the Pokrovsk direction. The enemy is also shelling the border areas of Sumy and Chernihiv regions with artillery.
Since the beginning of the day, the aggressor has attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 51 times. The enemy is most active in the Pokrovsk direction, UNN reports, citing the General Staff summary.
Artillery shelling of border areas continues. Today, in the Sumy region, the settlements of Sopych, Rohizne, Korenok, Budky, Malushyne, Atynske, Bachivsk, Ulanove, Yastrubshchyna, and Seredyna-Buda came under fire from the invaders, while in the Chernihiv region, the settlement of Luzhky was hit. In addition, Pustohorod and Vilna Sloboda in the Sumy region were hit by airstrikes
Three combat engagements took place in the Pivnichno-Slobozhanskyi and Kursk directions, one of which is still ongoing; the enemy also launched one airstrike using four guided aerial bombs and carried out 27 shellings, including two from multiple launch rocket systems.
Three attempts to break through our defenses were recorded in the Pivdenno-Slobozhanskyi direction near Prylipka and Zapadne, with one battle continuing at this very moment.
In the Kupyansk direction today, the enemy attacked our positions once in the area of Shyikivka.
Ukrainian soldiers repelled six attempts by the invaders to advance in the Lyman direction near Borova, Chervonyi Stav, Novoselivka, Drobysheve, and Ozerne; three combat engagements are ongoing.
In the Slovyansk direction, the Defense Forces successfully stopped four attempts by the invaders to move forward near Zakitne and toward Rai-Oleksandrivka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy did not conduct offensive operations.
Our defenders repelled four attacks in the Kostiantynivka direction near Ivanopillia, Illinivka, and Rusyn Yar; one combat engagement is still ongoing.
In the Pokrovsk direction, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers have tried 16 times to push our soldiers from their positions in the areas of Shakhove, Zolotoi Kolodiaz, Vilne, Bilytske, Rodynske, Shevchenko, Hryshyne, Serhiivka, Kotlyne, Udachne, and Novopavlivka; one combat engagement is ongoing.
The enemy tried to advance only once in the area of Oleksandrohrad in the Oleksandrivka direction.
The Defense Forces successfully repelled seven enemy attacks in the Huliaipole direction in the areas of Rybne, Vozdvyzhivka, Rizdvianka, Dobropillia, Zaliznychne, and Huliaipilske; two combat engagements are ongoing.
The enemy stormed the positions of our defenders twice in the Orikhiv direction in the areas of Stepove and Stepnohirsk.
In the Prydniprovskyi direction today, the enemy did not conduct offensive operations.
No significant changes in the situation are currently occurring in other directions; no attempts at enemy advancement have been recorded there, the General Staff summarized.