Enemy is conducting offensive operations in Kupiansk, Lyman, Avdiivka, Mariinka and Shakhtarsk directions. General Staff does not stop trying to capture Bakhmut
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published operational information regarding the Russian invasion as of 6:00 p.m. on March 19, 2023.
As Censor.NET informs, this was reported on the official Facebook page of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the evening summary, it is noted: "During the day, the enemy launched 1 missile and 7 air strikes, carried out 9 attacks from rocket salvo systems. The Russian occupiers cynically struck a residential building in the Vasylivskyi district and civilian infrastructure objects in the Kamianske, Zaporizhzhia region. Also the Russian army shelled civilian infrastructure facilities in Donetsk region, causing casualties and injuries, damage to high-rise buildings, private residential buildings and schools.
The probability of strikes throughout the territory of Ukraine remains high.
In the Volyn, Polissia, Siversk and Slobozhansk directions, the operational situation has not changed significantly. During the day, the enemy shelled the areas of the settlements of Kliusy, Oleksandrivka, Chernihiv region; Kharkivka, Starykove, Volfyne, Stepok of the Sumy region; Hlyboke, Krasne, Vovchansk, Kolodiazne, Kamianka, Krasne Pershe, Dvorichna, Zapadne and Kindrasivka of the Kharkiv region.
In the Kupiansk and Lyman directions, the enemy continues to try to break through the defenses of our troops. He led unsuccessful offensive actions in the area of the settlement of Novoselivske. He carried out artillery shelling of the areas of the settlements of Vesele, Kupiansk, Krokhmalne, Pishchane and Berestove in the Kharkiv region and Novoselivske, Nevske and Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region.
In the direction of Bakhmut, the enemy does not stop trying to capture the city of Bakhmut. Enemy attacks were repulsed in the areas of Bakhmut, Ivanovske, Bohdanivka and Hryhorivka settlements. Vasiukivka, Bakhmut, Hryhorivka, Ivanivske, Kostiantynivka, Zalizne and a number of other settlements of the Donetsk region came under enemy fire.
In the Avdiivka, Mariinka, and Shakhtarsk directions, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive actions in the areas of Kamianka, Avdiivka, Severne, Berdychi, and Mariinka settlements. Kamianka, Avdiivka, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, Heorhiivka, Mariinka, Vuhledar, Velyka Novosilka and Neskuchne of the Donetsk region came under enemy fire.
The enemy is defending in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions. The districts, in particular, Huliaipole, Bilohiria, Mala Tokmachka, Kamianske of the Zaporizhzhia region, as well as Kherson, Mykhailivka, Havrylivka, Dudchany, Ivanivka, and Dniprovske, were shelled.
The Russian occupiers continue to exert psychological pressure on the local population in order to force them to obtain citizenship of the Russian Federation. Thus, the counter-intelligence regime has been strengthened in the settlement of Azovske in the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region. During it, the local population is actively checked for the presence of a Russian passport. Citizens who do not have it are forced to put up with additional checks accompanied by detention.
Also, the Russian occupiers continue to commit looting, taking away housing from peaceful citizens of Ukraine. In particular, in the settlement of Strilkove of the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, the village council, due to the lobbying of the village head and on the basis of the forcibly collected signatures of local deputies, is developing an order regarding the forced illegal alienation of the houses of Ukrainian citizens who were forced to leave the settlement. They want to transfer the housing to servicemen of the Russian army of occupation.
During the day, the Aviation of the Defense Forces struck the Russian anti-aircraft missile complex (the type is to be specified), 6 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of the occupiers and ammunition depots.
Units of missile forces and artillery hit the enemy's anti-aircraft missile complex "Tor" and 2 areas of concentration of the occupiers.
