General Staff reports 73 combat clashes along front line since midnight, most on Kurakhove, Pokrovsk axes
The Russian occupation forces attacked the Ukrainian defense positions 73 times since midnight, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) has said in the update as of 4 p.m. on Thursday, adding that more than half of all attacks took place on the Kurakhove and Pokrovsk axes.
"On the Pokrovsk axis, the occupiers have already made 20 attacks on the positions of our defenders in the areas of Sukha Balka, Hirniak, Novotoretske and Kruty Yar since the beginning of the day. The defense forces, holding back the enemy onslaught, have already repelled 18 enemy attacks, two combat clashes are still ongoing. The occupiers focused their main efforts on the areas of Mykolaivka and Selydove, where seven and five clashes have been recorded respectively. Eighteen battles took place today on the Kurakhove axis, where the invaders are actively trying to advance in the areas of Novooleksandrivka, Tsukuryne, Heorhiyivka, Kostiantynivka, Trudove and Katerynivka. Five combat clashes are still ongoing," it said on Facebook.
The enemy attacked Ukrainian positions on the Kupyansk axis ten times and nine tomes on the Lyman axis, five of them are still ongoing, four on the Toretsk axis, three in each the Kramatorsk and Vremiv directions. One battle is still ongoing in the Bohoyavlenka area and two – on the Orikhiv axis. Fighting continues in the northern direction near Spirne, one enemy assault was repelled by Ukrainian defenders.
Russian aviation dropped one guided aerial bomb on the territory of the Kursk region of Russia. On the Kharkiv axis, Russian terrorists dropped ten guided aerial bombs near Cherkaska Lozova, Starytsia, and Bochkove.
On the Lyman axis, terrorists fired unguided aerial missiles at Novoyehorivka and the Serebriansky Forest. The enemy actively uses aviation on the Kramatorsk axis, having launched eleven guided bombs against Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region. On the Toretsk axis, the aggressor's aviation bombed the areas of Katerynivka and Kleban-Byk.
Russian artillery shelling targeted border areas of Sumy and Chernihiv regions.
