[LB] The defense forces struck four areas of concentration of personnel, weapons, and military equipment, and two enemy artillery pieces.
The 1,345th day of the Russian Federation's large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine has begun. Ukrainian defenders are steadfastly holding back the onslaught of the occupiers, inflicting significant losses on the enemy. In total, 172 combat clashes were recorded over the past day.
The General Staff reported this.
Yesterday, the enemy carried out 80 air strikes, dropped 177 guided bombs, carried out 4,323 attacks, including 98 from multiple rocket launchers, and engaged 5,671 kamikaze drones to destroy them.
Airstrikes were carried out in the areas of the settlements of Pokrovske in the Dnipropetrovsk region; Zaporizhzhia, Orikhiv, Kamianske in the Zaporizhzhia region; and Olhivka in the Kherson region.
Over the past day, the Defense Forces' aviation, missile forces, and artillery have struck four areas of concentration of personnel, weapons, and military equipment, as well as two enemy artillery pieces.
Five combat clashes took place in the North Slobozhansk and Kursk directions over the past day. The enemy carried out 9 air strikes, dropped 24 guided bombs, and carried out 194 shellings, including six from multiple launch rocket systems.
In the South Slobozhansk direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled five attacks near the settlements of Vovchansk and Kamyanka.
Yesterday, 15 attacks by the invaders took place in the Kupyansk direction. Our defenders repelled the enemy's assault actions near the settlements of Pishchane, Hlushkivka, Stepova Novoselivka, and Bohuslavka.
In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked 17 times, trying to penetrate our defenses in the areas of the settlements of Drobysheve, Torske, Zarichne, Koroviy Yar, Ridkodub, Karpivka, Stavky, and Novoselivka.
In the Slavyansk direction, our soldiers stopped seven enemy attacks in the direction of the settlements of Yampil, Serebryanka, Viyimka, and Pereyzne.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the Defense Forces successfully stopped two enemy attempts to advance, near Stupochky and in the direction of Vyrolyubivka.
In the Kostyantynivka direction, the enemy carried out 24 attacks in the areas of Predtechyny, Shcherbynivka, Pleshchiivka, Berestok, Rusyny Yar, Sofiivka, and towards Kostyantynivka.
In the Pokrovsk direction, our defenders stopped 55 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Shakhove, Dorozhne, Nykanorivka, Rodynske, Zvirove, Kotlyne, Molodetske, Udachne, Novopavlivka, Novoekonomichne, Chervonyi Liman, Mirnograd, Balahan, Lysivka, Pokrovsk, Filiya, Kucheriv Yar, Dachne.
In the Oleksandrivka direction, the enemy carried out 21 attacks over the past day in the areas of the settlements of Myrne, Sichneve, Novoselivka, Ternove, Sosnivka, Stepove, Verbove, Rybne, Pryvillya, Novohrygorivka, Vyshneve, Pryvilne.
In the Hulyaipil direction, the Defense Forces repelled one enemy attack in the area of ​​the settlement of Zeleny Hay. In the Orikhiv direction, five combat clashes took place - the enemy tried to advance near Stepovoye, Novodanylivka, Kamyanske, and Stepnohirsk.
In the Dnieper direction, Ukrainian units repelled four enemy assaults in the direction of the Antoniv Bridge.
No signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn and Polissya directions.
Our soldiers inflict significant losses in manpower and equipment on the occupation forces, actively undermining the enemy's offensive potential in the rear.
The losses of the Russian invaders over the past 24 hours amounted to 960 people. Ukrainian soldiers also neutralized two tanks, three armored combat vehicles, 25 artillery systems, one multiple launch rocket system, two air defense systems, 340 operational-tactical unmanned aerial vehicles, and 128 units of the invaders' vehicles.