Ukrainian Armed Forces liberate over 1,000 sq. km of territory, take control of 30 settlements in the last few days - The Ukrainian Armed Forces' General Staff

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports on Facebook.

“In general, in recent days, more than a thousand square kilometers of Ukrainian territory have been liberated from the occupiers. In some directions, units of the Defense Forces wedged themselves into the enemy's defenses to a depth of up to 50 km. More than thirty settlements that were temporarily occupied by the Russian invaders in the Kharkiv region were liberated or taken under control” - General Staff notes.

During the day, in order to support the actions of the land groupings, the Air Force of the Defense Forces of Ukraine launched 33 strikes - an ammunition depot was destroyed, damage was inflicted on almost 25 strongholds and places of accumulation of manpower and equipment.

Air defense units of Ukrainian troops destroyed two UAVs and one guided air missile in different directions.

Over the past 24 hours, as a result of the fire of rocket troops and artillery of Ukrainian land groupings, eighteen command and control points of various levels, areas of concentration of Russian manpower, means of anti-aircraft defense and electronic warfare, artillery units and more than twenty warehouses with ammunition, fuel and oil were damaged.

Meanwhile, in the liberated territories, the de-occupied communities are coming back to life. Demining of the area is underway. Units of the National Guard of Ukraine are conducting stabilization measures. The work of the National Police has been resumed. The police are recording numerous crimes committed by the enemy on Ukrainian soil, and are ready to counter provocations and the infiltration of subversive and intelligence groups. The local population is immediately provided with all possible help, because the occupiers left behind destroyed infrastructure, destroyed houses of civilians and heaps of scrap metal.

The enemy continues to focus its efforts on establishing full control over the territory of the Donetsk region, maintaining the temporarily captured districts of the Kherson region, part of the Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, and Mykolaiv regions.

The enemy conducts aerial reconnaissance with high intensity, continues to take measures to improve the logistical support of its troops. A further threat of air and missile strikes remains on the entire territory of Ukraine.

Over the past day, the enemy launched 13 missile and 23 air strikes against objects on the territory of Ukraine. In particular, infrastructure was affected in the districts of Velyki Prokhody, Avdiivka, Nevelske, Maryinka, Velyka Novosilka, Neskuchne, Vilne Pole, Poltavka, Mali Shcherbaky, Bilohirya, Ternovi Pody, Blahodatne, Suhy Stavok, Kostromka and Bezimenne settlements.

The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly.

In the Siverskyi direction, the enemy carried out airstrikes on civilian and military infrastructure in the areas of Slavhorod and Velyka Pysarivka settlements of the Sumy oblast.

In other directions, the russian occupiers shelled military and civilian infrastructure with tanks, combat vehicles, barrel and rocket artillery:

• in the Kharkiv direction - in the directions of the settlements of Dmytrivka, Prudyanka, Zolochiv, Sosnivka, Duvanka, Udy, Liptsi, Peremoha, Momotove, Borshchova;

• in the Slovyansk direction - in the districts of the settlements of Slovyansk, Dolyna, Krasnopillya, Velyka Komyshuvakha, Mykilske, Dibrivne;

• in the Kramatorsk direction - near Serebryanka, Kryva Luka, Sydorovo, Hryhorivka, Ivano-Daryivka and Spirne;

• in the Bakhmut direction - in the districts of Zaitseve, Mykolayivka Druha, Vesela Dolyna, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut and Yakovlivka settlements;

• Krasnohorivka, Avdiivka, Opytne, Vodyane, Karlivka, and Pervomaiske were shelled by mortars and barrel artillery in the Avdiyivka direction;

• in the Novopavlivskyi direction - in the districts of Maryinka, Novomykhailivka, Mykilske, Vugledar, Shevchenko, Velyka Novosilka, Bogoyavlenka, Neskuchne, Vremivka;

• in the Zaporizhzhya direction in the districts of settlements of Novoandriivka, Hulyaipole, Charivne, Novosilka, Shcherbaki, Vilne Pole, Malynivka, Orihiv, Novopil.

In the South Buzk direction, the enemy continued shelling along the contact line.

In addition, the enemy conducted aerial reconnaissance using UAVs - 36 flies were recorded.

To strengthen the Russian group in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region, a unit of the so-called "kadyrivtsy", numbering up to 1,300 people, formed according to national characteristics, arrived.

Ukrainian Defense forces successfully repelled enemy attacks in the districts of Zaitseve, Vesela Dolyna, Soledar, Bakhmut and Pervomaiske settlements.