The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports on Facebook.
Russians continue to focus its efforts on attempts to fully occupy the Donetsk region and hold the captured territories, as well as disrupt the active actions of the Defence Forces in certain areas. They shell the positions of Ukrainian troops along the contact line, try to restore lost positions in certain directions, and conduct aerial reconnaissance.
Russian occupiers strike civilian infrastructure and peaceful residential buildings, violating norms of International Humanitarian Law, laws and customs of war.
There is a threat of air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine. For example, Russians launched 5 missile and 12 air strikes, and conducted more than 83 MLRS attacks in the last 24 hours. Also, the Russian enemy used 4 attack UAVs to strike civilian infrastructure objects.
Russian occupiers shelled more than 40 settlements. These are, in particular, Kupyansk, Kramatorsk, Bakhmut, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Kamyanka, Kurakhove, Pavlivka, Zaporizhzhya, Nikopol, Ochakiv, Mykolaiv and Odesa.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. In other directions, the occupiers shelled from tanks, mortars, and barrel artillery:
in the Siversky direction - Oleksandrivka settlement in the Sumy region;
in the Slobozhansk direction - the settlements of Strilecha, Odnorobivka, Veterynarne, Hatyshche, Kamyanka, Holubivka and Senkove;
in the Kramatorsk direction - Novoselivka, Shchurove, Siversk, Hryhorivka, Belogorivka, Zakitne, Dibrova, Verkhnokamianske, Vesele, Rozdolivka, Ozerne and Spirne;
in the Bakhmut direction - Soledar, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Odradivka, Zaytseve, Klishchivka, Vesela Dolyna, Yakovlivka, Mayorsk, Nelipovka, Vyimka and Bilohorivka;
in the Avdiyivka direction - Avdiyivka, Opytne, Pervomayiske, Novomykhailivka and Paraskoviyivka.
Russians shelled settlements by tanks, mortars and barrel artillery in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia directions. Among them are Yehorivka, Pavlivka, Zaliznychne, Novoandriyivka, Hulyaipilske, Hulyaipole, Uspenivka, Novosilka, Vremivka and Chervone.
In the South Buzk direction, Russians damaged more than 27 settlements near the contact line by artillery and mortar shelling.
Russian occupiers continue to suffer losses. Ukrainian troops conducted another accurate strike on September 24 on the area of concentration of enemy equipment on the territory of the industrial zone within the city of Kherson. Previously, the enemy lost up to 10 units of military equipment, losses in personnel are being clarified.
Units of Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in Spirne, Soledar, Mayorsk, Bakhmut, Pidhorodne, Vyimka, Kurdyumivka, Zaitseve, Novomykhailivka, Pervomayiske, Kamyanka, Pobyeda, and Pavlivka in the last 24 hours.
Ukrainian aviation of the Defence Forces conducted 33 strikes. 25 areas of concentration of the Russian manpower and military equipment and 8 positions of anti-aircraft missile systems were hit. In addition, Ukrainian Air Defense units destroyed one Su-25 aircraft, Mi-8 helicopter and 2 enemy UAVs.
Ukrainian missile troops and artillery, in particular, hit 6 Russian command and control points, 12 areas of concentration of enemy manpower and equipment, 2 positions of anti-aircraft missile systems, 3 units of missile troops and artillery, 6 warehouses with ammunition, as well as 9 separate important targets in the last 24 hours.