Russian troops tried to advance in areas of Veselaya Dolyna, Zaytsevo and Vodyanyi

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

It is noted that Russian enemy is concentrating its efforts on establishing full control over the territory of Donetsk region, as well as maintaining the captured areas of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya and Mykolaiv regions.

The enemy continues to carry out air and missile strikes on military and civilian objects on the territory of Ukraine.

In the Kharkiv direction, using tanks, combat vehicles, barrel and jet artillery, the enemy shelled the positions of Ukrainian troops and civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Klenove, Dementiivka, Ruski Tyshki, Velyki Prohody, Petrivka, Peremoga, Bayrak, Shevelivka.  The enemy continues conducting aerial reconnaissance using unmanned aerial vehicles.

In the Slavyansk direction, they carried out shelling with the use of tanks, barrel artillery and rocket salvo fire systems in the areas of Krasnopilly, Virnopilly, and Hrushuvakh settlements.  Conducted aerial reconnaissance using drones.

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy continues to conduct active combat operations, concentrating the main efforts on the Bakhmut and Avdiiv directions.  Exercises fire influence and tries to improve the tactical position, actively conducts air reconnaissance.

In the Kramatorsk direction, shelling was carried out with the use of barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Raihorodok, Berestov, Rozdolivka, Tetyanivka, Mala Piskunivka, Verkhnyokamianske, Ivano-Daryivka, and Siversk.

In the direction of Bakhmut, they shelled military and civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmutske, Soledar, Yakovlivka, Mayorsk, Diliivka.  Enemy units tried to conduct offensive battles in the areas of Vesela Dolyna and Zaitseve settlements.

In the Avdiyiv direction, he carried out shelling with the use of barrel, rocket artillery, and tanks in the areas of the settlements of Opytne, Pervomaiske, and New York.  He carried out airstrikes in the areas of the settlements of Vremivka, Neskuchne, Oleksandropil.

On the Novopavlivskyi direction, they shelled the positions of Ukrainian troops using tanks, barrel artillery, and rocket salvo fire systems in the vicinity of Zolota Niva settlement.  An airstrike was carried out in the area of ​​Maryinka settlement.  Russian forces  led an offensive battle in the area of ​​the settlement of Vodyane, but were unsuccessful.

In the Zaporizhzhya region, they shelled the positions of the defenders of Ukraine with the use of barrel and jet artillery, tanks in the areas of settlements of Novopil, Olgivske, Gulyaipole, Novodanilivka, Novoyakovlivka, Dorozhnyanka, Zelene Pole, Charivne, Biloghirya.

The situation remains unchanged on the Volyn and Polissky directions. Units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to carry out the task of strengthening the protection of the section of the Belarusian-Ukrainian border in the Brest and Gomel regions.

The threat of the enemy launching missile and air strikes from the territory and airspace of Belarus remains.

 In the Siversk direction, the enemy continues to hold separate units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation in the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions.  The enemy, using barrel artillery, shelled civilian and military infrastructure in the areas of Kamianska Sloboda and Zaliznyi Myst settlements of Chernihiv region.