General Staff summary: 78 battles took place at the front

The Ukrainian Defense Forces are holding back the advance of the Russian occupiers. The total number of combat clashes is currently 78.

This is stated in the construction of the General Staff.

Today, the communities of the following settlements suffered from enemy artillery and mortar fire: Yanzhulovka in the Chernihiv region; Sosnovka, Khleborob, Petrushevka, Bolshaya Pisarevka, Maryino, Sopich, Bunyakino in the Sumy region; Timofeevka in the Kharkiv region.

Today, 23 enemy attacks took place in the Severo-Slobozhansky and Kursk directions, four combat clashes are still ongoing. The invaders’ aircraft carried out eight strikes, dropping 12 guided aerial bombs. In addition, the enemy carried out 131 artillery shelling of our troops’ positions and populated areas.

In the South Slobozhansky direction today the enemy attacked three times in the areas of the settlements of Volchansk and Krasnoe Pervoye.

In the Kupyansk direction, an attack by Russian infidels is underway in the Stepnaya Novoselovka area.

In the Liman direction, the invading army has carried out eight attacks on Ukrainian positions in the areas of the settlements of Korovoy Yar, Karpovka, Kolodtsy, Shandrigolovo and Torskoye today. Two combat clashes are currently ongoing.

In the Seversky direction, the enemy has not carried out any active actions since the beginning of the day.

In the Kramatorsk direction, units of the Defense Forces repelled two enemy attacks in the area of Belaya Gora.

In the Toretsk direction, our defenders successfully repelled three enemy attempts to penetrate our defenses in the areas of Shcherbinovka and Aleksandro-Kalinovoye.

In the Pokrovsk direction, since the beginning of the day, Russian infidels have made 28 attempts to push our soldiers from their positions in the areas of the settlements of Poltavka, Vladimirovka, Novoekonomicheskoe, Lysovka, Mirnograd, Pokrovsk, Zverevo, Kotlino, Molodetskoye, Udachnoye, Orekhovo, Alekseyevka. The defense forces are holding back the pressure and have already repelled 24 attacks.

In the Novopavlovskoye direction, Ukrainian defenders stopped three assault actions by enemy troops, another clash is currently ongoing. The enemy tried to advance in the areas of the settlements of Zvezda, Svobodnoye Pole, Novopolye and in the direction of Alexandrograd.

In the Gulyai-Polye direction, enemy aircraft launched unguided air strikes on the settlement of Zheleznodorozhnoye; the enemy did not carry out any assault actions.

In the Orekhov direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled one enemy attack near Kamenskoye, in addition, the enemy launched airstrikes on the settlements of Novodanilovka and Plavni.

In the Dnieper direction, there were six combat contacts, the enemy tried to advance in the direction of the settlements of Dneprovskoe, Sadovoe, Pridneprovskoe, in the area of the settlement of Golaya Pristan and Kozulsky Island. An air strike was carried out on the settlement of Olgovka.