The fifty-ninth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. A russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.
russian enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to defeat the Joint Forces, establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, and secure a land route between these territories and the occupied Crimea.
The greatest activity of russian enemy is observed in Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions. Units of russian occupiers are regrouping.
russian enemy continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure.
In the Volyn, Polissya and Siversky directions, certain units of the Armed Forces of the republic of belarus perform tasks to strengthen the Ukrainian-belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions. In order to clarify the position of our troops in the Sumy direction, the enemy used UAVs from the area of the settlement of Glushkovo.
The threat of missile and air strikes from these areas remains. In addition, it is possible that the enemy will provoke on the Ukrainian-Russian border, accusing them of representatives of the Defence Forces of Ukraine.
In the Tavriya and Pivdennobuzhsky directions there is a group of russian enemy troops, consisting of independent units of the 8th and 49th Combined Arms Armies, the 22nd Army Corps, the coastal troops of the Black Sea Fleet of the Southern Military District and Airborne troops. russian enemy focuses its main efforts on improving its tactical position and maintaining the occupied frontiers.
In order to create favourable conditions for advancing in the direction of the city of Mykolayiv, russian enemy is shelling the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. To increase the air defense system near the city of Skadovsk, russian enemy deployed a S-300VM battery.
In the Slobozhansky direction, a group of russian enemy troops continues to partially block Kharkiv and fire at it from barrel and rocket artillery.
Independent units of the 1st Tank and 20th Combined Arms Armies of the Western Military District, the 35th Combined Arms Army and the 68th Army Corps of the Eastern Military District and Airborne Forces are conducting offensive and assault operations south of Izyum. russian enemy conducts air reconnaissance of positions and measures to organize fire support for the offensive and the organization of logistical support of the group.
According to available information, units of the 64th Independent Motorized Rifle Brigade, which took an active part in the mass killings, torture and rape of civilians in the Ukrainian city of Bucha, are operating in the area of Izyum and have already suffered casualties.
In the Donetsk direction, russian enemy is conducting offensive operations along the entire line of contact. russian enemy is concentrating its main efforts on the offensive in the Siverodonetsk direction, exerting intense fire on our troops in order to displace them and create conditions for the development of the offensive on Slovyansk. The offensive in the direction of Novotoshkivsky and assault operations in the areas of Rubizhne, Popasna and Marinka continue.
In the Mariupol direction, russian enemy continues to blockade our units in the area of the Azovstal plant and launch air strikes on the city, including with the use of long-range aircraft. In order to demine the port infrastructure of Mariupol, an engineering russian unit arrived in the occupied city.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, to strengthen its group, russian enemy moved a battalion tactical group from the 19th Motorized Rifle Division of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District.
As part of the formation of additional reserves, the training of a unit of the russian private military campaign "Wagner" numbering up to 200 people was completed. The advanced group of the unit was transferred to the Novobakhmutivka district to reconnoitre the area and clarify the order of interaction. The information is currently being clarified.
In the South Buh direction, russian enemy is trying to improve its tactical position and gain a foothold on the administrative borders of the Kherson region. Suffers significant losses in technics.
In the Black Sea and Azov operational zones, russian enemy naval groups in the Black and Azov Seas continue to carry out tasks to isolate the combat area and conduct reconnaissance.
In the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts alone, eight russian enemy attacks have been repulsed in the past 24 hours, nine tanks, eighteen armored units and thirteen vehicles, a tanker and three artillery systems have been destroyed.