The sixy-first 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.
In the Volyn, Polissya and Seversky areas, russian enemy did not take active action, no significant changes in the position and activities of enemy units that protect the Ukrainian-belarusian and Ukrainian-russian sections of the state border of Ukraine were detected.
In the Slobozhansky direction, russian occupiers continue shelling with artillery and rocket-propelled grenade launchers in the settlements of Kharkiv, Karasivka, Prudyanka, and Kororbochkino.
In the directions of Izyum - Barvinkove and Izyum - Slovyansk, russian enemy unsuccessfully tried to carry out assault operations and carried out shelling in the areas of the settlements of Velyka Komyshuvakha, Virnopillya and Nova Dmytrivka.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, russian enemy carried out artillery shelling on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the city of Mariupol, russian enemy launched missile and bomb strikes on the positions of Ukrainian troops on the territory of the Azovstal plant. russian enemy conducts assault operations on the village of Popasna.
In the South Buh direction, russian enemy fired at the positions of our troops in the areas of the settlements of Knyazivka and Mykolayivka.
Ukraine's Defense Forces inflict heavy losses on the enemy. In the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts only, seven enemy attacks have been repulsed in the past 24 hours, thirteen tanks, three artillery systems, seventeen armoured vehicles, four armoured combat vehicles, eighteen vehicles and four tankers have been destroyed. Three Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by air defense units in the area.