The General Staff reported 138 engagements over the past 24 hours, with the heaviest fighting taking place in the Pokrovsk direction
The 1,528th day of Russia’s large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine has begun. Defence forces are holding back the enemy’s offensive operations and inflicting losses on them in terms of personnel and equipment.
Over the past 24 hours, 138 combat engagements were recorded. The enemy carried out 76 air strikes and dropped 255 guided bombs. It also deployed 9,499 kamikaze drones and fired 3,304 rounds at Ukrainian military positions and populated areas, including 49 from multiple launch rocket systems.
Air strikes were recorded, in particular, in the areas of Holubivka and Rudnia in Sumy Oblast, as well as Tavriya and Komyshuvakha in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Over the past 24 hours, the Defence Forces’ aviation, missile forces and artillery struck three drone control centres, one artillery system at its position, 11 areas where personnel were concentrated, and another key enemy target.
Three attacks were repelled in the Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors. The occupiers carried out 80 shelling attacks, 11 of which involved the use of multiple launch rocket systems.
In the Southern Slobozhanskyi sector, the enemy attacked seven times in the areas of Lyman, Starytsia, Vovchansk, and Okhrimivka.
In the Kupiansk sector, five attacks took place in the directions of Kurylivka, Kindrashivka and Novoplatonivka.
In the Lyman sector, Ukrainian forces repelled six attempts by the enemy to advance in the directions of Stavky, Drobysheve, Lyman and Dibrova.
In the Sloviansk sector, three attacks were repelled in the areas of Zakitne, Riznykivka and Yampil. No active hostilities were recorded in the Kramatorsk sector.
In the Kostiantynivka sector, the enemy carried out 16 attacks near Kostiantynivka, Pleshchiivka, Oleksandro-Shultynivka, Stepanivka, Sofiivka, Illinivka and Ivanopil.
The highest number of assaults was recorded in the Pokrovsk direction, where the Defence Forces repelled 26 attacks in the areas of Bilytske, Rodynske, Pokrovsk, Myrnohrad, Muravka, Kotlyne, Novooleksandrivka, Hryshyne, Udachne and Molodetske.
In the Oleksandrivka sector, the enemy launched two attacks in the directions of Verbove and Zlagoda.
In the Huliaipole sector, 19 attacks took place in the areas of Dobropillia, Staroukrainka, Varvarivka, Zaliznychne, Zelenyi, Tsvitkove, Olenokostiantynivka, Huliaipole and Charivne.
In the Orikhiv sector, two attacks were recorded in the directions of Pavlivka and Shcherbakiv.
In the Dnipro sector, Ukrainian forces repelled five assaults in the area of the Antonivsky Bridge and Bilohrudy Island.
In the Volyn and Polissya sectors, no signs of the enemy forming offensive groups were detected.
Russian troop losses over the past 24 hours amounted to 1,420 personnel. Two tanks, three armoured fighting vehicles, 100 artillery systems, one multiple launch rocket system, one air defence system, 1,924 drones, 403 vehicles and two pieces of specialised equipment were also destroyed.
