General Staff: 141 combat engagements on front lines in Ukraine in past day
This is said in a situation update by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrinform reports.
Yesterday the Russian army launched two missile strikes using two missiles and 80 air strikes using 111 guided aerial bombs at the positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas. The enemy also carried out about 4,000 shelling attacks, including 110 MLRS attacks.
The enemy also launched air strikes, particularly in the areas Lyptsi, Vovchanski Khutory, Bilyi Kolodiaz and Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region; Lysychne, Novoselivka Persha, Toretsk, New York, Tymofiivka, Vozdvyzhivka, Prohres, Ivanivka, Vovche and Hrodivka in the Donetsk region.
Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian aircraft, missile forces and artillery conducted 11 air strikes on enemy positions, hitting a command center, an air defense system, three personnel concentration areas, an R-441 Liven communication station and a Protivnik-GE radar station.
In the Kharkiv sector, the enemy continued its offensive. There were five combat engagements in the areas of Lyptsi, Starytsia, Hlyboke and Vovchansk.
In the Kupiansk sector, the number of attacks reached 13 over the past day. Ukrainian defense forces repelled all Russian assaults near Synkivka, Stepova Novoselivka, Pishchane and Stelmakhivka.
In the Lyman sector, 16 enemy attacks were repelled in the areas of Nevske, Hrekivka, Makiivka, Terny and the Serebryansky forest.
In the Siversk sector, the Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled three assault attacks near Verkhniokamianske.
In the Kramatorsk sector, Ukrainian troops thwarted five Russian attempts to break through the defensive lines in the areas of Kalynivka, Hryhorivka and Chasiv Yar.
In the Toretsk sector, the enemy launched nine unsuccessful attacks near Pivnichne and Toretsk.
In the Pokrovsk sector, Ukrainian defenders repelled 52 assault attacks in the areas of New York, Prohres, Vozdvyzhivka, Novooleksandrivka, Kalynove, Lozuvatka, Novoselivka Persha and Yasnobrodivka, where the invaders, with the support of aircraft, attempted to dislodge the Ukrainian forces from their positions.
In the Kurakhove sector, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled enemy attacks near Krasnohorivka, Heorhiivka, Paraskoviivka and Kostiantynivka. The Russian army tried to break through the defensive lines 19 times.
In the Vremivka sector, the enemy carried out 10 attacks in the area of Vodiane, Kostiantynivka and Makarivka.
In the Orikhiv sector, five combat engagements took place in the areas of Mala Tokmachka and Robotyne.
In the Dnipro River sector, the invaders continued attempts to dislodge the Defense Forces units from their bridgeheads. Four Russian attacks were unsuccessful.
The operational situation in the Volyn and Polissia sectors remains unchanged. There have been no signs of enemy offensive groups forming.
As reported by Ukrinform, Russia lost nearly 552,190 troops in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and July 8, 2024, including 1,200 soldiers killed or wounded in action in the past 24 hours.
