Over past day, Russian army shells Ukraine more than 4,600 times – General Staff
According to updated information, yesterday the enemy carried out five strikes with eight missiles and 79 airstrikes on the positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas, having dropped 106 areal bombs, according to the report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 08:00 on Monday, August 19.
In addition, the enemy carried out more than 4,600 shellings, 159 of which were from multiple launch rocket systems.
Also, according to the General Staff, the aggressor carried out airstrikes in the areas of the populated areas of Holyshivske, Yunakivka, Basivka, Bilopilia in Sumy region; Mala Vovcha, Starytsia, Kupiansk-Vuzlovy, Cherneschyna in Kharkiv region; Dachne, Nove, Druzhba, Toretsk, Nelipivka, New York, Vozdvyzhenka, Tarasivka, Kalinove, Mykhailivka, Oleksandropil, Kostiantynivka, Makarivka, Shevchenko, Velyka Novosilka of Donetsk region; Dolynka, Kamianske of Zaporizhia region; Lvove, Mykolaivka of Kherson region.
At the same time, the report emphasizes, yesterday the aviation as well as missile and artillery troops of the Defense Forces carried out 17 strikes on areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the enemy.
In addition, they hit an artillery system, two air defense systems, three command posts, four radar stations and two more important objects of the occupiers.