Nearly 60 combat engagements recorded at the front, most intense on the Pokrovsk axis – General Staff
Kyiv • UNN
According to the General Staff, artillery shelling of border areas continues. Today, a number of settlements in the Sumy region were affected.
Since the beginning of the day, the aggressor has attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 59 times. The enemy is most active in the Pokrovsk direction, UNN reports, citing the General Staff summary.
Artillery shelling of border areas continues. Today, the settlements of Korenok, Bachivsk, Iskryskivshchyna, Ryzhivka, and Atynske in the Sumy region, and Khrinivka in the Chernihiv region, were affected
In the Pivnichno-Slobozhanskyi and Kursk directions, the enemy carried out 45 shellings of settlements and positions of our troops, one of which involved multiple launch rocket systems, and conducted one airstrike using four guided bombs.
In the Pivdenno-Slobozhanskyi direction, the enemy twice stormed the positions of our units in the areas of Starytsia and in the direction of Chervona Zorya. One combat engagement is still ongoing.
In the Kupyansk and Kramatorsk directions, the enemy did not conduct active operations today.
In the area of the settlement of Drobysheve, our defenders are repelling an enemy assault in the Lyman direction.
In the Slovyansk direction, Ukrainian warriors repelled two attempts by the invaders to advance in the area of Yampil and in the direction of the settlement of Rai-Oleksandrivka.
In the Kostiantynivka direction, the invaders carried out ten attacks near Kostiantynivka, Illinivka, Oleksandro-Shultyne, Ivanopillia, and Pleshchiivka.
In the Pokrovsk direction, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers have tried 25 times to push our warriors from their positions in the areas of Novopavlivka, Sofiivka, Vilne, Novooleksandrivka, Rodynske, Pokrovsk, Hryshyne, Udachne, Muravka, and Novopidhorodne. Three combat engagements are still ongoing.
In the Oleksandrivka direction, the enemy attacked four times in the areas of Oleksandrohrad, Stepove, and Krasnohirske. One combat engagement is currently continuing.
In the Huiliaipole direction, the Defense Forces successfully repelled ten enemy attacks in the areas of Zaliznychne, Huiliaipilske, Dobropillia, Sviatopetrivka, and Staroukrainka. The enemy launched airstrikes in the areas of Zelene, Rivne, Charivne, Dolynka, Huiliaipilske, and Liubytske. One combat engagement is ongoing.
In the Orikhiv direction, the enemy launched airstrikes on the areas of Novooleksandrivka and Orikhiv.
In the Prydniprovskyi direction, the Defense Forces successfully repelled one enemy assault in the area of the Antonivka Bridge; another enemy attack is still ongoing.
In other directions, there are currently no significant changes in the situation. No attempts by the enemy to advance have been recorded, the General Staff summarized.