There have been 69 combat contacts at the front since the beginning of the day
Фото: Генеральний штаб ЗСУ
As of 16:00 on August 7, 69 combat clashes were recorded on the front line between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops. Fighting is still ongoing in seven areas.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this in its construction.
Today, communities in the Sumy region suffered from artillery and mortar shelling – in particular, Ryasnoe, Miropolskoe and Turya. The settlement of Seredina-Buda suffered an air strike. In the Kharkiv region, fire was directed at Vozrozhdenskoe.
In the Severo-Slobozhansky and Kursk directions, Ukrainian soldiers repelled seven attacks. Enemy aircraft carried out six strikes, dropping 16 guided bombs. 214 attacks were recorded, including six from multiple launch rocket systems.
In the Yuzhno-Slobozhansky direction, two enemy attacks were recorded in the Vovchansk area, one of which is ongoing. In the Kupyansk direction, six attacks occurred in the areas of Mirny, Golubovka, Kondrashovka and Zagryzovoye – three clashes remain active.
In the Liman direction, the Russian army carried out 15 attacks in the areas of Zelenye Dolina, Karpovka, Yampolevka, Kolodtsy, Torskoye, as well as in the directions of Serebryanka, Grigoryevka and Olgovka. Seven battles are still ongoing. In the Seversky direction, the enemy tried to break through the defenses at Grigorovka and Fedorovka four times, two battles are not completed.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy is trying to advance towards Novomarkovoye and Stupochki, there is currently one battle. In the Toretsk direction, the enemy is conducting active assault operations near Dilievka, Toretskaya, Shcherbinovka and Rusiny Yar – four attacks have been repelled, two are still ongoing.
The greatest intensity is observed in the Pokrovsk direction – Russian forces have made 24 attempts to push back the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of more than ten settlements, including near Poltavka, Boykovka, Nikolaevka, Rodinskoye and Zverevoye. The defense forces have already repelled 22 attacks.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces stopped two enemy assaults in the areas of Filial and Tolstoy. In the Orekhovsky direction, an attack was repelled near Novodanilovka.
No offensive actions were recorded in the Gulyai-Polye and Dnieper directions.
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