Armed Forces of Ukraine destroy 10 air targets of Russian army

The Ukrainian Air Force over the previous day hit 10 air targets: 3 aircraft, 4 operational-tactical UAVs and 3 cruise missiles, Report informs, citing the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to the General Staff, six Russian attacks were repulsed in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions over the past day: 4 tanks, 5 artillery systems, 13 armored vehicles, 15 automobiles, 2 fuel tanks and 1 anti-aircraft gun were destroyed.

“The offensive operations of the enemy continue in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to defeat the Joint Forces grouping, establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and ensure a land corridor between these territories and the occupied Crimea.

In the Sloboda direction, the enemy strengthens the grouping of troops, continues the partial blockade of the city of Kharkiv and the shelling of our troops and critical infrastructure.

The enemy is trying to carry out an offensive in the direction of the Zavody settlement. Fighting continues.

In the Donetsk and Tauride directions, the enemy is moving control points closer to the line of combat.

The enemy fires on the positions of our troops using mortars, cannon artillery, multiple launch rocket systems along the entire line of contact. … The enemy is intensively firing and blocking our units in the area of ​​the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

In the Southern Buh direction, the enemy, along the entire line of contact, carried out shelling of our units. Reconnaissance activity is recorded in the area of ​​​​the administrative border of the Mykolaiv region.

In the area of ​​the village of Velyka Oleksandrivka, Kherson region, the defenders of Ukraine destroyed an ammunition depot and a large number of personnel of the Russian troops (more than 70 people were killed). The exact number of deaths is being specified.

The units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation are trying to carry out aerial surveillance over the territory of the Odessa region,” the General Staff said.