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The enemy focused their efforts on the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Marinka directions – 37 combat clashes in those places. Bakhmut and Maryinka will continue to be at the epicenter of hostilities, said the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
During the day, the enemy launched two missile strikes on Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, using the S-300 air defense system. In addition, it carried out 38 airstrikes and more than 25 attacks from rocket salvo systems.
The enemy also conducted mortar and artillery attacks on the settlements of Yeline, Muravya, Chernihiv region; Vovkivka, Iskriskivshchyna, Volfine, Shpyl, Stepok of the Sumy region, as well as Kozacha Lopan, Hoptivka, Lukyantsi, Hatyshche, Budarky, Nesterne, Kruhle, Zemlyanki, Staritsa in the Kharkiv region.
The Air Force of the Defense Forces carried out seven strikes on concentration areas where enemy personnel and military equipment were and seven strikes on enemy anti-aircraft missile systems. Missile and Artillery forces hit the control post, two areas of concentration of the Russians, three artillery units in a firing position, two electronic warfare stations, and the occupiers’ ammunition depot.
Summary by directions
In the Kupiansk direction, the enemy does not stop trying to improve the tactical position.
During the day, they conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the Masyutivka area. They carried out an airstrike on the settlement of Kislivka.
Stelmakhivka of the Luhansk region came under enemy artillery and mortar fire as well as Dvorichanske, Kamianka, Krasne Pershe, Mitrofanivka, Figolivka, Novomlynsk, Dvorichna, Zapadne, Kindrasivka, Kupyansk, Kislivka, Tabaivka, Berestov of Kharkiv region.
In the Lyman direction, the enemy did not conduct offensive operations. They carried out an air strike in the area of Spirne.
Occupants also struck Makiivka and Bilohorivka of the Luhansk region and Verkhnokamianske and Spirne of the Donetsk region by artillery fire.
In the Avdiivka direction, the enemy continued to destroy the infrastructure of settlements, carried out airstrikes on Avdiivka, and shelled Stepove, Lastochkina, Avdiivka, Pervomaiske, and Karlivka in the Donetsk region.
In the Marinka direction, units of the defense forces repelled numerous enemy attacks on the city of Marinka. At the same time, Krasnohorivka, Hostre, Heorhiivka, Maryinka, and Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk region came under enemy fire.
In the Shakhtarsk direction, the enemy shelled the settlements of Vuhledar, Prechystivka, Novoukrainka, and Shakhtarske.
In the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions, the enemy continues defensive operations. They carried out airstrikes on the settlements of the Vilne Pole in the Donetsk region, Mala Tokmachka in the Zaporizhzhia region, and Stanislav in the Kherson region. Meanwhile, he shelled the settlements of Burlatske, Vilne Pole, Novopil of the Donetsk region; Olhivske, Malynivka, Hulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Hulyaipilske, Bilohirya, Mala Tokmachka, Orikhiv and Kamianske of the Zaporizhzhia region, as well as the city of Kherson.
Translated by Yulian Lahun
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