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Ukrainian fighters hold back the Russian offensive near Avdiyivka and Maryinka, - General Staff
2023-08-12
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] During the day, 25 combat clashes took place at the front.

by Vera Perun


In the Avdiivka direction, under heavy fire from the enemy's aircraft and artillery, Ukrainian defenders continue to hold back the advance of Russian troops in the Avdiivka area of ​​the Donetsk region. And on Marinsk - an enemy offensive in the area of ​​the city of Marinka.

This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine .

In the Kupyan direction, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensives in the area of ​​Synkivka and Ivanivka, Kharkiv region. In Bakhmutskyi, the offensive of the occupiers failed in the Bohdanivka, Klishchiivka and Bila Hora districts of the Donetsk region. On Shakhtarsky, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to restore the lost position in the Urozhany area of ​​the Donetsk region.

During the day, the aviation of the defense forces struck the area of ​​concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the Russians. Also, our fighters destroyed four reconnaissance UAVs of the operational-tactical level. And units of missile troops and artillery hit the enemy's Strela anti-aircraft missile complex during the day.

At the same time, the Russian occupiers launched five missile strikes, using four Kh-47 "Kinjal" aeroballistic missiles (one destroyed) and a S-300 missile. In addition, the enemy carried out 24 airstrikes and carried out about 37 attacks from rocket salvo systems.

During the day, 25 combat clashes took place.

The situation at the front as of 18:00 on August 11 is as follows:

On the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation has not changed significantly;

in Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi, the Russians carried out mortar and artillery attacks on more than 20 settlements, in particular, Klyus of Chernihiv region; Seredyna-Buda, Vodolagy, Loknya of Sumy Oblast and Odnorobivka, Udy in Kharkiv Oblast;

in Kupyansk, the occupiers carried out airstrikes in the Kislivka and Pershotravnevo regions of the Kharkiv region. More than 15 settlements, including Kupyansk, Kurylivka, Kislivka, Kotlyarivka, Tabaivka, Krokhmalne of the Kharkiv region, were subjected to enemy artillery and mortar shelling;

in Lymanskyi, the invaders carried out airstrikes in the areas of Nevsky, Bilogorivka, Luhansk region, and Vesely, Zaliznyansky, and Klishchiivka, Donetsk region. More than 25 settlements, including Nevske, Dibrova, Belogorivka of the Luhansk region and Zarichne, Yampil, Serebryanka of the Donetsk region, were hit by artillery fire from the enemy;

in Bakhmutsky, more than 20 settlements were affected by enemy artillery shelling, among them Ivanivske, Klishchiivka, Kurdyumivka, Ozaryanivka, Diliivka, Druzhba of the Donetsk region;

more than 10 settlements, including Oleksandropil, Keramik, Novobakhmutivka, Stepove, Avdievka, and Severne of the Donetsk region, were hit by artillery fire in Avdiivskyi ;

on Maryinsky, the Russians carried out airstrikes in the districts of Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Novomykhailivka, Donetsk region. More than 10 settlements, including Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Maksimilyanivka, Paraskoviivka, Novomykhailivka, and Elizavetivka of the Donetsk region, were hit by artillery fire;

on Shakhtarsky, the occupiers carried out an airstrike in the Staromayorsky district of the Donetsk region. Vodyane, Ugledar, Bogoyavlenka, Prechistivka, Zolota Niva, Blagodatne of the Donetsk region were subjected to artillery shelling;

in Zaporizhzhia, the enemy carried out airstrikes in the districts of Novodanilivka and Orikhovo of Zaporizhzhia region. More than 20 settlements, including Zaliznychne, Gulyaipilske, Biloghirya, Novoandriivka, Mali Shcherbaki, and Stepove of the Zaporizhia region, were hit by artillery fire;


in Khersonsk, more than 25 settlements were subjected to Russian artillery fire, among them Beryslav, Tokarivka, Antonivka, Komyshany, Kizomys of the Kherson region and the city of Kherson ; Kutsurub, Ochakiv, Mykolaiv region.

The Defense Forces of Ukraine continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions, are entrenched at the achieved boundaries, and carry out counter-battery countermeasures.

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