12:59 11.05.2022

Occupiers concentrate forces in Slobozhanske direction to prevent advance of Ukrainian troops to state border - AFU General Staff

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Occupiers concentrate forces in Slobozhanske direction to prevent advance of Ukrainian troops to state border - AFU General Staff

The Russian occupiers are concentrating their main efforts to prevent a Ukrainian offensive and advance towards the Ukrainian-Russian border, and are conducting reconnaissance to the north and northeast of Kharkiv, according to the AFU General Staff.

The occupiers are reportedly most active in Slobozhanske and Donetsk directions.

In Slobozhanske direction, the enemy operates in a grouping consisting of individual units of the 6th Army of the Western Military District, the 41st All-Army of the Central Military District, the coastal forces of the Baltic and Northern Fleets. The occupiers continue to focus their main efforts on preventing further advance of our troops in the direction of the state border of Ukraine, conducting reconnaissance of Defense Forces units to the north and northeast of the city of Kharkiv.

In Donetsk direction, the grouping of occupation troops concentrates its main efforts to continue offensive actions to take full control of the town of Rubizhne and capture the settlements of Lyman and Severodonetsk.

It does not stop its assault actions in Lymanske, Severodonetske, Bakhmutske, Avdiyivske and Kurakhivske directions with the support of artillery and rocket artillery units.

В городе Мариуполь враг блокирует наши подразделения в районе завода "Азовсталь". При поддержке огня артиллерии и танков производят штурмовые действия. Наносит ракетно-бомбовые удары.

In Izium direction, the grouping of individual units of the 1st Tank Army and the 20th General Army of the Western Military District, the 29th, 35th and 36th General Armies and the 68th Army Corps of the Eastern Military District and airborne troops concentrates the main efforts to inflict a fire attack on our units in a certain area.

In Pivdennobuzke and Tavrycheske directions, enemy units try to improve their tactical position.

In Mykolaiv direction, the enemy continues shelling the positions of defenders of Ukraine.

The enemy uses electronic warfare complexes to suppress radio communication channels.

In order to gain a foothold in the captured territory, it conducts engineering work and creates new positions in the areas of Bruskynske and Velyka Oleksandrivka.

In Tavrycheske direction, it conducts demonstrative actions to restrain the actions of the Defense Forces units, improves the engineering equipment of its positions, and replenishes supplies.

In Bessarabian direction, the situation in Transdniestrian region of the Republic of Moldova remains tense.

Units of the operational group of Russian troops continue to be on full alert.

The enemy continues to destroy the civil infrastructure of Ukraine by rocket and bomb attacks and artillery shelling of settlements and infrastructure facilities.

Constant shelling by Russian troops does not allow for the full-scale evacuation of civilians and the wounded from the combat zone.

During the previous day, air defense units of the Air Force and Ground Forces hit four Orlan-10 UAVs. In addition, one Mi-24 helicopter was destroyed by one of the airborne assault brigades of the AFU.

Air force aviation in certain directions continued to deliver fire strikes to the enemy from the air and support combat operations of our troops' units.

On the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, defenders of Ukraine in the past 24 hours repulsed 12 enemy attacks, destroyed 12 tanks, four artillery systems, 19 units of armored fighting vehicles, seven vehicles and two units of special engineering equipment of the enemy.

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