Ukrainian army repels 27 enemy attacks in the Avdiivka area — General Staff

During the past 24 hours, 64 combat clashes were recorded at the front in Ukraine. The defense forces are firmly holding the defense in the Avdiivka area, inflicting significant losses in manpower and equipment on the Russian troops.

Rubryka reports this with a reference to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook.

Attacks of the Russian army

In total, the enemy carried out two missile and 29 air strikes and carried out 47 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas. As a result of Russian terrorist attacks, unfortunately, there are dead and wounded among the civilian population. Private residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed and damaged.

At night, the Russian invaders once again attacked Ukraine, using five unmanned aerial vehicles of the Shahed-136/131 type. The forces and means of air defense destroyed all attack UAVs.

The following were hit by airstrikes:

• Petropavlivka, Kharkiv region;
• Terny, Zvanivka, Novobakhmutivka, Avdiivka, Novomykhailivka, Paraskoviivka of the Donetsk region;
• Krynky, Olhivka, Kherson region.

More than 100 settlements in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions came under artillery fire.

The situation on the front lines

• In the Volyn and Polissia directions, the operational situation remains without significant changes.
• In the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions, the enemy maintains a military presence in the border areas, conducts active diversionary activities to prevent the transfer of Ukrainian troops to dangerous areas, increases the density of mine-explosive barriers along the state border in the Belgorod region.
• In the Kupiansk area, Ukrainian defenders repelled nine enemy attacks in the areas of Synkivka and east of Petropavlivka, Kharkiv region.
• In the Lyman direction, the Ukrainian army repelled eight enemy attacks near Makiyivka, Luhansk Region, and east of Terny, Donetsk region.
• In the Bakhmut direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled five enemy attacks in the Bohdanivka, Klishchiivka, and Andriivka districts of the Donetsk region. The defense forces continue to inflict losses on the enemy in terms of manpower and equipment and are entrenched at the achieved frontiers.
• In the Avdiivka direction, Ukrainian defenders continue to restrain the enemy, who does not stop trying to surround Avdiivka. Ukrainian soldiers firmly hold the defense, inflicting significant losses on the occupiers. So, 16 enemy attacks east of Novobakhmutivka, Stepove, Avdiyivka, and another 11 — south of Tonenke, Nevelske, and Pervomaiske of the Donetsk region were repelled.
• In the Mariinka direction, the defense forces continue to hold back the enemy in the Novomykhailivka district of the Donetsk region, where four attacks were repelled.
  The enemy did not conduct offensive (assault) actions in the Shakhtarsk direction.
• In the Zaporizhzhia region, the defense forces repelled four enemy attacks west of Verbove and Robotyne.
• In the Melitopol direction, Ukrainian soldiers continue to actively inflict losses in manpower and equipment on the occupying troops, exhausting the enemy along the entire front line.
• In the Kherson direction, the defense forces will continue to hold occupied positions on the left bank of the Dnieper, conduct a counter-battery fight, and inflict fire damage on the enemy's rear.
  Successes of the Ukrainian military

During the past day, the Air Force of the Defense Forces carried out strikes on:

• area of concentration of personnel, weapons, and military equipment,
• two anti-aircraft missile complexes of the enemy.

Units of the missile forces struck:

• 4 areas of concentration of personnel, weapons, and military equipment,
• artillery,
• the enemy's ammunition depot.

According to the military, on the temporarily occupied left bank of the Kherson region, the work of Ukrainian defenders is not easy, but it is progressing.

It was also reported that the Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group tried seven times during the last two weeks to break through the border of Ukraine. In particular, one of the attempts was carried out in the Myropillia area of the Sumy region.