Ukrainian forces repel 12 enemy attacks in Lyman-Kupiansk sector
Ukraine’s Defense Forces repelled 12 enemy attacks in the Lyman-Kupiansk direction, having eliminated about 100 Russian invaders.
26 June 2023
Ukraine’s Defense Forces repelled 12 enemy attacks in the Lyman-Kupiansk direction, having eliminated about 100 Russian invaders.
In the Bakhmut sector, a total of 153 Russian occupiers have been eliminated and more than 200 injured over the past day.
Russian troops are focusing the main efforts on the Lyman, Bakhmut and Marinka directions. Over 35 military clashes have occurred there in the past 24 hours.
Russians in the occupied part of Kherson region have begun dismantling and removing wind turbines from the Windcraft Ukraine wind park, and the pontoon ferry near the damaged Chongar bridge is operating only for military purposes.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited the units of the Khortytsia operational and strategic group of troops and presented state awards to the military.
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, near the Kirovske district’s Tokarieve and Shubyne, the warehouse facilities of Russian occupiers have caught fire.
Russians shelled a private enterprise in Nikopol with heavy artillery, killing two people and injuring another civilian.
In Ukraine, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, almost 8,800 civilians have been victims of enforced disappearances, and 10,200 people are missing.
In Nikopol, one-third of the city's residents have been restored to water supply, which was cut off due to a Russian terrorist attack on the Kakhovka HPP.
Over the past day, the defense forces destroyed four companies of Russian invaders and 15 units of enemy military equipment in the Tavria sector.
Acting Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen has announced the start of training Ukrainian pilots on Western F-16 fighters.
Russian troops attacked Bilozerka in Kherson region, a 71-year-old woman was wounded and hospitalized.
A 41-year-old woman from Myropillya, who was injured during yesterday's Russian artillery shelling, died in a hospital in the Sumy region.
The army of the Russian Federation attacked nine regions of Ukraine overnight, using aircraft, drones, mortars, MLRS, and heavy artillery.
Defense forces regained Ukraine’s control of Rivnopil settlement in Donetsk region.
At night and in the morning, Russian troops fired on the Esman, Seredyna-Buda and Bilopillya communities in the Sumy region - 49 explosions were heard.
The Ukrainian troops mopped up a Russian bridgehead on the western bank of the Siverskyi Donets–Donbas canal.
Service members of the 103rd Separate Brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed how they spotted and destroyed Russian Murom-M automatic video surveillance system using aerial reconnaissance.
In Donetsk region, Russian invaders struck Vuhledar with artillery 19 times over the past day and launched four missile attacks on Druzhkivka last night.
In Odesa region, a warehouse was destroyed and houses were damaged in a Russian missile attack last night.
The Australian government will provide a new $73.5 million package to Ukraine including 70 military vehicles to defend against Russia's invasion.
Ukraine has gained impetus in its assaults around Bakhmut. Instead, Russian troops face numerous threats on different fronts.
The army of the Russian Federation killed 490 children in Ukraine and injured another 1,031 children.
Serhiy Nayev, the commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that the construction of psychological and tactical obstacle courses in the Northern Operational Zone has been completed.
Since the counteroffensive started, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have liberated 130 square kilometers from Russian occupiers in the south.
Since yesterday evening, Russian troops have fired three times with heavy artillery at Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
At the end of last week, Ukrainian troops launched counter-offensives in the areas of Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Bakhmut, Bohdanivka, Yahidne, Klishchiyivka and Kurdyumivka, and in each direction they have advanced from 1 to 2 km.
Three civilians have been injured in Russia’s shelling of the Donetsk region over the past day.
On the night of June 26, 2023, Ukraine’s air defense units destroyed two Russian Kalibr-type cruise missiles and seven Shahed-type unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs).
Russia has already lost about 225,580 troops in Ukraine (+950 over the past day).