Ukrainian Armed Forces destroy one Russian Mi-24 helicopter, says General Staff 

The greatest activity of the occupiers is observed in Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions. In the Volyn, Polissya and Siversky directions, the situation remains without significant changes, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine wrote on Facebook, Report informs.

According to the ministry, Russia uses electronic warfare systems to suppress radio channels: "The occupiers continue to focus their efforts on preventing the further advance of our troops towards the state border of Ukraine. In the Donetsk direction, the group of occupying troops is concentrating its main efforts on continuing the offensive in order to take full control of the city of Rubizhne and capture the settlements of Lyman and Severodonetsk. The Russian Armed Forces don't stop assaults on the Lyman, Severodonetsk, Bakhmut, Avdiyev, and Kurakhiv areas with the support of artillery and jet artillery units. In the city of Mariupol, the Russian enemy is blocking our units near the Azovstal plant. With the support of artillery and tank fire, it conducts assault operations and inflicts rocket and bomb strikes. In the Mykolayiv direction, the enemy continues to carry out attacks on the position of defenders of Ukraine. In the Kryvyi Rih direction, it fired on artillery units of our troops."

"In the Tavriya direction, the Russian Army conducts demonstration actions in order to restrain the actions of units of the Defence Forces, improves the engineering equipment of its positions, and replenishes its reserves. The Russian enemy continues to destroy Ukraine's civilian infrastructure by launching missile and bomb strikes and carrying out artillery shelling of settlements and infrastructure. The constant shelling by Russian troops does not allow for a full-fledged evacuation of civilians and wounded from the war zone. During the previous day, the air defence units of the Air Force and the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit four UAVs of the Orlan-10 type. In addition, one of the brigades of the assault troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed one Russian Mi-24 helicopter. In the Donetsk and Luhansk oblast, defenders of Ukraine repulsed twelve enemy attacks, destroyed twelve tanks, four artillery systems, nineteen armoured combat vehicles, seven cars and two special engineering equipment of the enemy," the ministry said.