[LB] In total, there were more than 500 combat encounters between the enemy and the defenders.
Iryna Lysohor
The defenders repelled 124 attacks in the Bakhmut direction and more than 160 in the Avdiiv direction in a week, the spokesman of the General Staff said.
Defense forces of Ukraine continue their offensive south of Bakhmut. Last week, in the direction of Bakhmut, the enemy carried out assaults in the areas of Hryhorivka, Bohdanivka, Ivanivskyi, Klishchiivka, Andriivka, and east of Severny. Here, the defenders repelled 124 enemy attacks.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the occupiers conducted unsuccessful assaults northwest of Verbovoy, Robotyny, and Novoprokopivka 104 times per week. The spokesman of the General Staff, Andriy Kovalev, announced this on the air of the telethon.
"In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy continues offensive actions in the areas of Sinkivka, further east of Petropavlivka, Ivanivka of the Kharkiv region and Novoselivsky, Stelmakhivka of the Luhansk region. In this direction, during the past week, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 48 enemy attacks, inflicting considerable losses in both manpower and and in heavy weapons," he said.
In the Lymansky direction, the enemy conducted assaults in the areas of Stelmakhivka, Serebryansk forestry of Luhansk region and Terny, Yampolivka, Torsky of Donetsk region, where the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled 59 attacks during the week.
In the Avdiivka direction, the enemy continues offensive actions in the Avdiivka area, where during the week there were 168 attacks on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the area east and south of Novokalynovy, east of Novobakhmutivka, northeast of Berdychiv, Stepovoy, Andriivka, Opytny, Severny, north of Tonenko and Pervomaisky of the Donetsk region .
In the Mariinsky direction, the Russians tried to capture Maryinka and are currently continuing their offensive in the Krasnohorivka and Novomykhailivka regions of the Donetsk region. The defense forces repelled 66 attacks by the occupiers.
In the Shakhtarsky direction, the occupiers unsuccessfully tried to carry out eight attacks in Vodyanyi, south of Vugledar, Prechistivka and Staromayorsky districts.
In Kherson, the occupiers concentrated their main efforts on conducting defense and displacing Ukrainian units from the occupied bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper. The occupiers continue to carry out airstrikes and artillery fire on the defenders' positions in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.
During the week, there were 589 combat clashes, the enemy launched more than 30 missile and more than 270 airstrikes, carried out 386 attacks from rocket salvo systems on military positions and civilian infrastructure.
We will remind you that the other day the president held a meeting on the construction of defense structures . Zelenskyi said that defense fortifications will be erected in an accelerated mode in all the main directions where "it is necessary to strengthen". According to him, these are primarily Avdiivskyi, Marinskyi and other areas of the Donetsk region. Kupyansk direction, as well as the defensive line Kupyansk - Lyman. All Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Rivne regions, Volyn. And also the south - Kherson region.