Ukraine repulses 11 attacks of Russian forces in Donetsk, Luhansk directions

Russian forces continue to launch missile and air strikes on the territory of Ukraine, and increased the intensity of the use of aircraft to destroy the critical infrastructure of settlements in the area of ​​active hostilities, Report informs referring to the Facebook page of the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.

In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the armed forces of Belarus are conducting intensive reconnaissance, and additional units are being deployed in the border areas of the Gomel region. The threat of air and missile strikes from the territory of Belarus remained.

“In the Slobozhansky direction Russian enemy, by forces of divisions 6th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District and the Baltic Fleet, is fighting to maintain the previously occupied frontiers in the Kharkiv direction. Strengthening the police-administrative regime, enemy units set up checkpoints and fortifications on access roads and directly near the settlements of Velykyi Burluk, Kapitolivka, Mykhailivka, Levkivka, Zabavne and Kupyansk.

In the Donetsk direction, Russian enemy does not stop trying to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops and reach the administrative borders of Luhansk oblast. It did not conduct active hostilities in the Lyman direction. The occupiers fired on the infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Lyman, Ozerne and Dibrova,” reads the report.

“In the Avdiivka, Kurakhiv, Novopavliv and Zaporizhzhia directions there is a decrease in the intensity of hostilities. Russian enemy is trying to gain a foothold on the achieved frontiers, shelling the positions of the Defense Forces. Russian enemy inflicted air strikes on civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Avdiivka, Novoselivka Druha, Novomykhailivka and Mykilske. Over the past 24hrs, eleven Russian enemy attacks have been repulsed in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, six tanks, ten units of armored combat vehicles and six units of enemy vehicles have been destroyed. Air defense units shot down one Orlan-10 UAV and an enemy Su-25 aircraft in these areas. Air and anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force destroyed four enemy cruise missiles,” the report noted.