The Russian occupiers are still trying to advance in the Donbass. The situation is especially difficult in the Bakhmut direction, but Ukrainian soldiers repel enemy attacks.

Despite huge losses, Russia continues to wage a war of conquest. The main efforts of the enemy are focused on attempts to completely capture the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

The defense forces repelled more than 80 attacks

To achieve its goals, the enemy continues offensive operations on:

• Limansky,
• Bakhmutsky,
• Avdievsky,
• Maryinsky,
• Mining directions.

Over the past day, our defenders repulsed 83 attacks on this sector of the front. Bakhmut remains the epicenter of hostilities.

The most tense situation in the Bakhmut direction

What is the situation on the routes

In the Kupyansk and Limansk directions, the enemy continues to attempt to break through the defenses of our troops . He led unsuccessful offensive operations in the areas of the settlements of Kremennaya, Dibrova, Verkhnekamennoye and Controversial.

The enemy carried out artillery shelling of the areas of the settlements of Putnikovo, Krasnoe Pervoe, Dvurechnaya, Gryanikovka, Kupyansk, Krakhmalnoye and Berestovoe in the Kharkiv region; Novoselovskoe, Nevskoe and Belogorovka in the Luhansk region, as well as Disputed and Fedorovka in the Donetsk region.

Map of hostilities in the Kupyansk direction

In the Bakhmut direction, units of the Defense Forces repelled numerous enemy attacks in the northern part of the city of Bakhmut , as well as in the areas of the settlements of Orekhovo-Vasilovka, Grigorovka and Bogdanovka.

Defense forces repulsed attacks in the northern part of Bakhmut: map

Vasyukovka, Zheleznyanskoye, Orekhovo-Vasilovka, Grigorovka, Bogdanovka, Bakhmut, Ivanovskoye, Chasov Yar, Kurdyumovka, Ozaryanovka and Northern Donetsk region were subjected to enemy shelling.

On the Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Mining directions, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive operations in the areas of the settlements of Krasnogorovka, Kamenka, Avdeevka, Vodianoe, Pervomayskoye, as well as Maryinka, which the invaders attacked 15 times.

In particular, Kamenka, Lastochkino, Avdeevka, Thin, Georgievka, Nevelskoe, Maryinka, Vuhledar and Bolshaya Novoselka of the Donetsk region were subjected to enemy shelling.

The occupiers are advancing on Avdiivka: a map of hostilities

The enemy is on the defensive in the Zaporozhye and Kherson directions. In particular, Olhivske, Krasnoe, Gulyaipole, Malaya Tokmachka, Novodanilivka, Novoandreevka and Kamenskoye of the Zaporozhye region were subjected to shelling. The city of Kherson and Antonovka were shelled again.

On the Volynsky, Polessky, Seversky and Slobozhansky directions, the operational situation remains constant. During the day, the enemy shelled the areas of the settlements of Aleksandrovka and Klyusa of the Chernihiv region; Kharkivka, Starikovo, Volfin – Sumy and Krasnaya Zarya, Veterinary, Strelka, Staritsa, Volchansk and Bolshoy Burluk in the Kharkiv region.

The defense forces worked on the occupiers

• Over the past 24 hours, the Aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine delivered 10 strikes on the areas of concentration of the occupiers.
• At the same time, the Shahid-136 UAV was shot down, and our missilemen and artillerymen hit 7 enemy personnel and military equipment concentration areas.