AFU have partial success in Klishchiivka area, heavy fighting continues - General Staff
In the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces have partial success in the Klishchiivka area of the Donetsk region, they dislodge the enemy from their occupied positions and secure themselves at the achieved boundaries, fierce battles continue
This is stated in the morning summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Censor.NET informs.
During the past 24 hours, more than 30 combat clashes took place. The enemy launched 5 missiles and 87 air strikes, carried out 44 attacks from rocket salvo systems both on the positions of our troops and on civilian objects of our state. The occupiers also attacked Ukraine with 33 kamikaze drones of the "Shahed-136/131" type, of which 26 were destroyed by Ukrainian air defenses. As a result of the Russian terrorist attacks, more than 100 private residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed and damaged.
The following settlements were hit by enemy airstrikes: Kostiantynivka, Sumy region; Vesele, Ohirtseve, Sinkivka, Kyslivka, Kotliarivka of the Kharkiv region; Novoselivske, Novoehorivka, Bilohorivka, Luhansk region; Spirne, Khromove, New York, Avdiivka, Staromayorske of the Donetsk region; Mala Tokmachka, Novodanilivka, and Robotyne of the Zaporizhzhia region; Burhunka, Kherson region; Pervomaisky Island, Zmiiny Island.
About 100 settlements in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions came under enemy artillery fire.
On the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation remains without significant changes.
In the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions, the enemy continues to hold groups of troops covering the state border, conducts active diversionary activities in the border areas in order to prevent the transfer of our troops to threatening directions.
In the area of responsibility of the Operational and strategic grouping of troops "Khortytsia" in the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces have partial success in the Klishchiivka area of the Donetsk region, dislodge the enemy from their occupied positions and gain a foothold at the achieved boundaries, fierce battles continue. In addition, the occupiers unsuccessfully tried to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the districts of Orihovo-Vasylivka, Klishchiivka, and Kurdiumivka of the Donetsk region.
In the area of responsibility of the Operational and strategic grouping of troops "Tavria" in the Avdiivka, Mariinka, and Shakhtarsk directions, the Defense Forces have the initiative to deter the enemy, carry out assault operations, and retake our land meter-by-meter. Thus, our defenders are successfully defending in the Keramik, Avdiivka, Severne, Mariinka, and Rivnopole areas of the Donetsk region, where during the day the enemy made about 20 unsuccessful attempts to dislodge our units from their positions. All enemy attacks resulted in significant losses in manpower and equipment for the occupiers.
In the Melitopol direction, the Defense Forces continued the offensive operation, inflicted significant losses in manpower and equipment on the occupying troops, and secured themselves at the achieved boundaries.
In the Kherson direction, the defense forces continue to conduct a counter-battery fight, destroy supply depots, and inflict successful damage on the enemy's rear.
