War update: Ukrainian forces repel about 100 enemy attacks, including near Bakhmut

The relevant statement was made by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

“The enemy is focusing efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Shakhtarsk directions. In the past 24 hours, Ukrainian defenders have repelled about 100 enemy attacks within these directions,” the report states.

Over the past day, Russian troops have launched 10 missile strikes and 31 air strikes, and opened fire with multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) over 40 times. As a result, civilian objects were hit in the Kharkiv and Kherson regions. Casualties among civilians were reported.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Air Force launched 17 strikes on enemy clusters, as well as four strikes on Russian air defense missile system positions. The Ukrainian missile and artillery units hit three Russian personnel clusters, one ammunition depot, one fuel depot, and one other important enemy target.

In the Volyn, Polissia, Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions, no offensive enemy groupings were detected. Russian occupiers used mortars and artillery to open fire on the Chernihiv region’s Senkivka, Yeline, Medvedivka, Leonivka and Mykhalchyna Sloboda; the Sumy region’s Sopych, Koreniok, Hirky, Ryzhivka, Iskryskivshchyna, Volfyne, Oleksiivka, Vodolaha, Zapsillia and Myropillia; and over 22 settlements in the Kharkiv region, namely Chervona Zoria, Veterynarne, Strilecha, etc. The enemy also used combat aircraft to launch strikes near Dvorichna and Ohirtseve.

In the Kupiansk and Lyman directions, Russian troops conducted unsuccessful offensive actions near such settlements as Stelmakhivka, Dibrova, Bilohorivka, Fedorivka and Rozdolivka. Over 20 settlements came under enemy fire, namely the Kharkiv region’s Hrianykivka, Synkivka, Kupiansk and Tabaivka; the Luhansk region’s Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka, Makiivka, Yampil, Nevske, Dibrova and Bilohorivka; and the Donetsk region’s Hryhorivka, Spirne, Berestove, Rozdolivka and Fedorivka. The enemy also launched air strikes near the Kharkiv region’s Hrianykivka, Kotliarivka and Krokhmalny, and the Luhansk region’s Serebrianske forestry and Bilohorivka. The Donetsk region’s Spirne, Sakko i Vantsetti were also affected. Russian invaders used six Lancet-type loitering munitions in this direction.

In the Bakhmut direction, Russian occupiers conducted several unsuccessful offensive actions near such settlements as Berkhivka, Bakhmut, Zaliznianske, Ivanivske, Chasiv Yar, Dyliivka and Vasylivka. Over 20 settlements came under enemy fire.

In the Avdiivka and Shakhtarsk directions, Russian troops continue unsuccessful offensive actions near Vodiane, Nevelske, Novomykhailivka and Prechystivka. The enemy launched artillery strikes on about 25 settlements, namely Novobakhmutivka, Avdiivka, Berdychi, Orlivka, Pervomaiske, Krasnohorivka, Heorhiivka, Marinka, Novomykhailivka, Vuhledar and Prechystivka.

In the Zaporizhzhia direction, over 25 settlements came under enemy fire, including the Donetsk region’s Vremivka and Novopil; the Zaporizhzhia region’s Zelene Pole, Olhivske, Poltavka, Charivne, Novodanylivka, Orikhiv, Kamianske, Lukianivske, Stepnohirsk and Pavlivske; and the Dnipropetrovsk region’s Marhanets, Chervonohryhorivka and Nikopol.

In the Kherson direction, Russian occupiers launched artillery strikes on the Kherson region’s Mykhailivka, Havrylivka, Beryslav, Vesele, Odradokamianka, Mykolaivka, Krynky, Novotiahynka, Zymivnyk and Kherson, i.e. over 30 settlements in total.

In order to replenish huge personnel losses, Russia continues concealed mobilization efforts. In the regions of the Caucasus, men are being forcibly drafted in, irrespective of their health and willingness to take part in hostilities within the territory of Ukraine.

In some districts of the temporarily occupied Luhansk region, mobile operators cut off access to the Internet in order to prevent the transmission of data on the actions of Russian occupation troops and to fight against the patriotically-minded population of Ukraine.