The General Staff has identified the areas where the heaviest fighting took place over the past 24 hours

The 1,493rd day of the Russian Federation’s large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine has begun. Defence forces continue to repel the enemy’s advance and inflict casualties on them.

Over the past 24 hours, 150 combat engagements have been recorded. The enemy carried out 68 air strikes, deployed 227 guided bombs, 9,190 kamikaze drones and conducted 3,906 shelling attacks, including 98 from multiple launch rocket systems.

Air strikes were recorded, in particular, in the Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions. Defence forces struck five areas where personnel and equipment were concentrated, as well as one key enemy target.

The heaviest fighting

The highest number of attacks took place in the Pokrovsk direction. Ukrainian forces repelled 42 assaults in the areas of Shakove, Novopidhorodne, Bilytske, Rodynske, Myrnohrad, Hryshyne, Kotlyne, Udachne, Pokrovsk and Molodetske in the direction of Hannivka, Novyi Donbas, Kuchorove Yar and Svitle.

In the Kostiantynivka sector, 23 attacks were recorded near Kostiantynivka, Pleshchiivka, Illinivka, Berestok, Stepanivka, Novopavlivka and Sofiivka.

In the Huliaipole sector, 22 combat engagements took place in the areas of Huliaipole, Zaliznychne, Myrne and Sviatopetrivka.

Active sectors

In the Oleksandrivka sector, the enemy carried out 10 attacks in the areas of Oleksandrohrad, Vyshneve and Krasnohirsk.

In the Lyman sector, 8 attacks were recorded near Nadiya, Tverdokhlibove, Drobysheve, Stavky and Lyman.

In the Sloviansk sector, Ukrainian units repelled 4 attempted advances in the areas of Platonivka, Rai-Oleksandrivka and Riznykivka.

Limited activity

In the Orikhiv sector, three attacks took place in the areas of Tokmachka, Stepove and Shcherbakiv.

In the Southern Slobozhanskyi sector, two attacks were recorded near Staritsa and Zybino.

In the Kupiansk direction, the enemy carried out one attack near Novoosynove.

In the Northern Slobozhansky and Kursk sectors, the enemy carried out 69 shelling incidents.

No offensive actions were recorded in the Kramatorsk and Dnipro sectors.

In the Volyn and Polissya sectors, no signs of offensive groupings were detected.

Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces suffered losses of around 1,000 personnel. One tank, nine armoured fighting vehicles, 68 artillery systems, two multiple launch rocket systems, 2,222 drones and 217 vehicles were also destroyed.