The occupiers focused on preparations for the offensive in eastern Ukraine: the brief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The main efforts of the occupiers are to prepare for an offensive
operation in eastern Ukraine, the purpose of which is to establish full
control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

This is evidenced by data from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine.

In particular, the enemy continues active operations in the Slobozhansky,
Donetsk, Pivdennobuzsky and Tavriya directions.

“In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy continues to block the city of
Kharkiv and carry out artillery shelling. In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions,
the enemy continues artillery shelling of the settlement of Popasna. The goal
is to inflict fire damage on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and resume
the offensive on Rubizhne, Nyzhne and Novobakhmutivka,” the statement
reads.

According to the General Staff, the occupiers also unsuccessfully tried to
break through the defenses of our troops in the area of Novotoshkivske.
“In the Pivdennobuzsky direction, the enemy is defending previously
occupied borders, taking measures to restore the combat capability of its
units. It continues to carry out strict filtration measures in the temporarily
occupied territories of the Kherson region,” the General Staff added.

At the same time, some of the withdrawn Russian units are located in tent
camps on the territory of a number of regions of the Russian Federation
bordering Ukraine.

“The servicemen refuse to take part in further hostilities on the territory of
Ukraine. The moral and psychological condition of these personnel is low and
tends to deteriorate. The Command of the Armed Forces of the Russian
Federation continues to look for ways to solve the problem of replenishing its
units with human resources,» the General Staff said.

In particular, the Russian military commissariats have intensified their work
with conscripts who were discharged from military service after 2012 and who
have military registration specialties of a driver, a mechanic-driver, a scout, as
well as junior commanders. The official reason for being called to the
recruitment offices is to hold a training meeting on the specified military
specialties for a period of 3 months. Also, on the territory of the so-called
Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, appropriate propaganda work is being
carried out with the population who has Russian citizenship.

The occupiers continue to carry out violent actions against civilians in the
temporarily occupied territories. The population of Mariupol is being forcibly
deported to the temporarily occupied districts of the Donetsk region.

The grouping of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has hit three
air targets in the previous day: a cruise missile, a UAV and a combat aircraft.
The Air Force aviation continued to launch missile and bomb strikes on the
occupying forces

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