General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces: 15 Russian attacks repelled, 9 tanks destroyed

Over the past day, Ukraine’s Armed Forces have successfully repulsed 15 enemy attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, destroyed one anti-aircraft missile system, 9 tanks, 3 artillery systems, 25 units of armored combat vehicles, 3 units of special engineering equipment and 3 enemy vehicles, reported from the Facebook page of the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.

"Russian enemy does not stop conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and maintain the land corridor between these territories and the occupied Crimea,” reads the report.

"Russian enemy focuses the main efforts of the aviation group on supporting the actions of units in the eastern operational zone: in the Slobozhansky, Donetsk directions and in the area of ​​the Azovstal plant. Artillery continues to be used along almost the entire line of contact.

In the Siversky direction, Russian enemy continues to provide enhanced protection of the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Bryansk and Kursk regions. It fired multiple rocket-propelled grenades from the area of ​​the border settlements of Velyka Pisarivka, Bilopillya, Krasnopillya and Yunakivka in the Sumy region.”

"In Mariupol, Russian enemy continues to destroy the infrastructure of the Azovstal plant with artillery and air strikes. Fighting continues. Russian enemy ship groups continue to carry out tasks to isolate combat areas, conduct reconnaissance, launch missile strikes on important objects of civil and military infrastructure of our state, support units in the coastal direction and block civilian shipping,” reads the message.





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