The General Staff reported 208 clashes on the front line over the past 24 hours
The 1,535th day of Russia’s large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine has begun.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 208 combat engagements were recorded on the front line over the past 24 hours.
Russian troops launched one missile strike, carried out 99 air strikes and dropped 292 guided bombs. The Russian army also deployed 9,113 kamikaze drones and carried out 3,126 attacks on Ukrainian military positions and populated areas, including 131 using multiple launch rocket systems.
Air strikes hit areas around the settlements of Velyka Pysarivka in Sumy Oblast, and Lyubytske, Verkhnia Tersa, Vozdvyzhivska and Dolynka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian aviation, missile forces and artillery struck six command posts, four areas where enemy personnel were concentrated and one enemy artillery system.
Ten clashes took place in the Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors. Russian forces carried out 108 attacks, 23 of which involved multiple launch rocket systems.
In the Southern Slobozhanskyi sector, the enemy launched six attacks in the areas of Prylipka, Starytsia, Lyman and towards Izbytske.
In the Kupiansk sector, Ukrainian forces repelled four attacks near Radkivka and Novoplatonivka.
In the Lyman sector, Ukrainian defenders halted 13 attempts by the enemy to advance in the areas of Kovalevka, Drobysheve, Stavky, Dibrova and Lyman.
In the Sloviansk sector, Ukrainian forces repelled one attack near Rai-Oleksandrivka.
No offensive actions were recorded in the Kramatorsk sector.
In the Kostiantynivka sector, Russian troops launched nine attacks near Kostiantynivka, Illinivka, Rusyn Yar, Pleshchiivka and Ivanopil.
In the Pokrovsk sector, the Defence Forces repelled 33 assaults in the areas of Bilytske, Nykyforivka, Rodynske, Novooleksandrivka, Pokrovsk, Novopavlivka, Toretsk, Novyi Shakhovyi, Udachne, Molodetske, Hryshyne and Kotlyne, as well as in the direction of Hannivka, Novopavlivka and Shevchenko.
In the Oleksandrivka sector, the enemy launched three attacks near Kalynivka and Oleksandrohrad.
In the Huliaipole sector, 23 attacks by the occupiers were recorded in the areas of Rybne, Dobropillia, Sviatopetrivka, Pryluky, Zaliznychne, Staroukrainka, Verkhnia Tersa, Zaporizhzhia, Charivne and Olenokostiantynivka.
In the Orikhiv sector, the enemy attempted to advance six times near Shcherbakiv and Stepnogorsk.
In the Dnipro direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled three attacks towards the Antonivsky Bridge and Bilohrudyi Island.
In the Volyn and Polissya sectors, no signs of offensive groupings were detected.
According to the General Staff, the Russian army lost 1,130 troops over the past 24 hours. Ukrainian forces also destroyed one tank, 17 armoured fighting vehicles, 91 artillery systems, two multiple launch rocket systems, five air defence systems, eight ground-based robotic systems, 1,817 drones, 334 vehicles and one piece of specialised equipment.