There were 241 combat engagements on the front line over the past 24 hours, with the Pokrovsk sector remaining the hottest spot
The 1,570th day of the Russian Federation’s large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine has begun.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 241 combat engagements were recorded on the front line over the past 24 hours. Russian troops launched one missile strike using two missiles, carried out 116 air strikes and dropped 317 guided bombs. The enemy also deployed 10,104 kamikaze drones and carried out 3,528 attacks on Ukrainian military positions and populated areas, including 52 uses of multiple launch rocket systems.
Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Air Force, missile forces and artillery struck 17 areas where enemy personnel were concentrated and three artillery systems.
In the Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors, Russian forces carried out one air strike using three guided bombs and conducted 55 shelling attacks.
In the Southern Slobozhanskyi sector, nine attacks were recorded near Staritsa, Odradne, and Lyman, as well as in the directions of Kolodyazne, Okhrimivka, and Izbytske.
In the Kupiansk direction, Ukrainian units repelled two attempted advances in the directions of Bohuslavka and Kivsharivka.
In the Lyman sector, the enemy made 17 attempts to breach the defences near Novoselivka and in the directions of Drobysheve, Ozerny, Lyman, Shyikivka and Stepove.
In the Sloviansk direction, Russian troops carried out 11 assaults in the Zakytne area and in the directions of Kryva Luka and Rai-Oleksandrivka. No offensive actions were recorded in the Kramatorsk direction.
In the Kostiantynivka sector, the occupiers carried out 11 attacks near Pleshchiivka, Kostiantynivka and Illinivka.
The enemy was most active in the Pokrovsk direction, where Ukrainian forces repelled 47 assaults in the areas of Zatyshko, Novooleksandrivka, Muravka, Hryshyne, Kotlyne and Udachne, as well as in the directions of Novyi Donbas, Bilytske, Shevchenko, Dorozhne, Vilne and Novopavlivka.
In the Oleksandrivka sector, three attacks were recorded near Vorone and in the direction of Oleksandrohrad.
In the Huliaipole sector, Russian forces carried out 20 attacks in the areas of Rybne, Myrne and in the directions of Vozdvizhivka, Huliaipole, Charivne, Staroukrainka and Verkhnia Tersa.
In the Orikhiv sector, Ukrainian defenders repelled two enemy advances near Stepnogorsk and Maly Shcherbakiv.
In the Dnipro direction, one attack was repelled in the direction of Antonivsky Bridge.
In the Volyn and Polissya sectors, no signs of the enemy forming offensive groups have been detected.
According to the General Staff, Russian army losses over the past 24 hours amounted to 1,300 troops. Ukrainian defenders also destroyed four tanks, one armoured fighting vehicle, 78 artillery systems, two multiple launch rocket systems, one air defence system, eight ground-based robotic systems, 2,218 tactical-level drones, 352 vehicles and three pieces of specialist equipment.