The one hundred third (103) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
There are no significant changes in the situation in the Volyn and Polissya areas. On the territory of the republic of belarus, along the State Border of Ukraine, there is a presence of separate units of the Armed Forces of the russian federation, which are armed with operational and tactical missile systems "Iskander-M", anti-aircraft systems "Pantsir-C1", anti-aircraft missile systems S-400 and operational and tactical aircraft.
In the Siversky direction, the enemy continues to provide enhanced protection of the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Bryansk and Kursk regions. In order to demonstrate the presence in the border areas, there are separate units of the enemy, which are shelling the civilian infrastructure of the settlements of Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts of Ukraine.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy continues to fire on units of the Defense Forces with barrel artillery, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and tanks. In order to support the offensive, the enemy is intensively restoring the transport infrastructure and building pontoon-rail crossings across rivers in the temporarily occupied territories.
In the Kharkiv direction, the occupiers are actively defending, the main efforts are focused on maintaining the occupied borders. In order to increase the stability of the defense, the enemy takes additional measures on the engineering and fortification equipment positions. In order to restrain the actions of the Defense Forces, it is conducting intensive artillery and mortar shelling of our positions. In addition, the enemy fired on civilian infrastructure in the areas of Bazylivka, Kutuzivka and Petrivske.
In the Slovyansk direction, the enemy's main efforts are focused on continuing the offensive in the direction of the settlement of Slovyansk.
From artillery of various calibers, the enemy fired on civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Velyka Komyshuvakha, Virnopillya, Dibrivne, Nova Dmytrivka and Kurulka.
In the Donetsk direction, the aggressor's units are firing on the positions of our troops along the entire line of contact. The enemy fired missiles at Slovyansk, Lysychansk and Orikhove.
In the Lyman direction, with the support of artillery, the enemy is conducting offensive operations in the area of Svyatohirsk. The enemy is also conducting assault operations in the direction of the settlements of Shchurove and Staryi Karavan. Fighting continues there and there.
In the Siverodonetsk direction, the enemy fired at our troops with mortars and artillery systems of various types. The civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Metolkino, Borivske, Ustynivka, Toshkivka and others was also affected. The occupiers continue to storm Siverodonetsk.
In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy fired on the positions of our units with mortars, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of the settlements of Zolote, Orikhove, Gorske, Vrubivka, Klynove, Bilohorivka, Pokrovske and Rota. It used assault and army aircraft for air strikes near Bakhmut and Berestove. It carried out assault operations in the areas of the settlements of Komyshuvakha, Berestove and Mykolayivka. The enemy has suffered significant losses, has no success, fighting continues.
In the Avdiivka, Kurakhivka, Novopavlovsk and Zaporizhzhia directions, the enemy did not conduct active hostilities. It fired on civilian infrastructure in the Novobakhmutivka, Kamyanka, Avdiivka, Mykilsky, Zolota Nyva and Poltavka districts.
In the South Buh direction, in order to bind our troops, the occupiers fired artillery of various calibers in the areas of the settlements of Tavriyske, Nova Zorya, Stepova Dolyna, Novomykolayivka and Kobzartsi.
The enemy continues engineering equipment positions in the areas of Shevchenivka, Olhino and other settlements.
Over the past 24hrs, seven enemy attacks have been repulsed in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, four tanks, three artillery systems, eight armored combat vehicles and three units of motor vehicles have been destroyed. Air defense units shot down a Ka-52 combat helicopter and an unmanned aerial vehicle.