Ukrainian Armed Forces repulse Russian attacks near Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Bogorodnychy - General Staff

This is stated in the report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.

Russian enemy shelled populated areas with artillery and attack aircraft in Kharkiv Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Donetsk Oblast, Luhansk Oblast, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson Oblast, and Mykolaiv Oblast.

Russian occupiers tried to improve the tactical position in the directions of Stryapivka - Bakhmutske, Pokrovske - Soledar, Pokrovske - Bakhmut, Volodymyrivka - Yakovlivka, Vidrodzhenka - Vershina, Pokrovske - Vershina.  In all the indicated directions, Russian enemy was repulsed by Ukrainian soldiers and retreated.

With offensive actions, the Russian invaders tried to break through the defense of our troops in the directions of Spartak - Avdiivka, Vesele - Pisky, Novoselivka Druga - Krasnohorivka, Oleksandrivka - Maryinka, Kyrylivka - Pavlivka and Prechistivka - Novomayorske. Ukrainian soldiers inflicted significant losses on Russian enemy and pushed them back.

Separate enemy units tried to advance to the area of ​​the western outskirts of Bogorodichny, they did not succeed and retreated.

In the South, the enemy is trying to hold the occupied positions and prevent Ukrainian efense Forces from creating favorable conditions for resuming the offensive and liberating the temporarily captured territory.

Four sea-based cruise missile carriers are ready to use high-precision weapons in the waters of the Black Sea.

• From February 24 to August 6, the occupiers lost about 41,900 soldiers, 1,802 tanks, 955 artillery systems, and 744 drones.