There were 170 combat engagements, and the enemy launched 6,300 drones — General Staff on the situation at the front
Kyiv • UNN
Over the past day, there were 170 combat engagements; the enemy carried out 59 airstrikes and dropped 180 guided aerial bombs. The most active fighting is ongoing in the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka directions.
In total, since the beginning of this day, 170 combat engagements have taken place. The enemy launched 6.3 thousand drones and dropped 180 guided aerial bombs, and is most active in the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka directions, UNN reports, citing the General Staff's battlefield update.
The enemy carried out 59 airstrikes and dropped 180 guided aerial bombs. In addition, it deployed 6,343 kamikaze drones to strike targets and carried out 1,909 shellings of populated areas and our troops' positions
In the North Slobozhanskyi and Kursk directions, the enemy carried out one attack, which is still ongoing. At the same time, the occupiers shelled the positions of our troops and populated areas 46 times.
During the day, in the South Slobozhanskyi direction, the enemy stormed the positions of our units seven times near Starytsia and Lyman.
In the Kupiansk direction, today the enemy launched one assault on the positions of the Defense Forces toward the settlement of Novoplatonivka.
Fifteen attempts by the invaders to advance were recorded in the Lyman direction near the settlements of Novoselivka, Lyman, Dibrova, Dronivka, Kryva Luka and Zakitne; one combat engagement is still ongoing.
In the Sloviansk direction, the Defense Forces successfully stopped four attempts by the invaders to advance near Rai-Oleksandrivka.
One enemy assault was recorded in the Kramatorsk direction near Chasiv Yar.
In the Kostiantynivka direction, the Defense Forces repelled 22 enemy assaults near Ivanopillia, Kostiantynivka, Illinivka, Novoselivka, Torske and Mykolaipillia.
The enemy carried out a total of 20 attacks in the Pokrovsk direction. The occupiers attempted to advance near the settlements of Toretsk, Vilne, Novyi Donbas, Svitле, Bilytske, Novooleksandrivka, Vasylivka, Kotlyne, Udachne, Serhiivka, Novomykolaivka, Molodetske and Novoplatonivka.
According to preliminary estimates, 34 occupiers were eliminated here today and 23 were wounded; three vehicles and five pieces of the enemy's special equipment were destroyed. Four artillery systems and three enemy vehicles were damaged. A total of 335 unmanned aerial vehicles of various types were destroyed or suppressed.
Our defenders repelled four attacks by the occupiers in the Oleksandrivka direction near Kalynivske, Danylivka, Yehorivka and Rybne.
Seven attacks by the occupiers were recorded in the Huliaipole direction near the settlements of Vozdvyzhivka, Rivne, Hirke and Charivne; three combat engagements are ongoing.
In the Orikhiv direction, our defenders repelled two enemy attacks near Novoselivka, Zarichne and Novo Yakovlivka; two more combat engagements are ongoing.
In the Dnipro River direction, no enemy assault operations were recorded.
There were no significant changes in the situation in the other directions, the General Staff concluded.