In the last 24 hours, significant military events took place in the east of Ukraine, indicating the activity of the enemy in several directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
There were 139 battles at the front during the past day, the enemy was quite active in the Toretsk direction, continued offensive and assault actions in the Kharkiv direction, carried out the most attacks in the Pokrovsky direction, received a tough repulse near Malaya Tokmachka in the Orihiv direction. This was reported at the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a summary at 8 o'clock on July 6.
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"During the past 24 hours, 139 combat clashes took place," the General Staff reported.
According to detailed information, yesterday the aggressor launched six missile strikes (using twelve missiles), 55 airstrikes (using 72 anti-aircraft missiles), fired more than three thousand shots, 105 of them from rocket salvo systems.
"During the past day, the aviation and missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit two artillery systems, an ammunition warehouse, an electronic warfare station, six personnel concentration areas and another important object of the occupiers," the General Staff said.
As reported by the General Staff, the situation by direction is as follows:
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy continued offensive and assault actions with the support of aviation, in total there were eight combat clashes in the areas of the settlements of Vovchansk, Hlyboke, Staritsa and Liptsi.
In the Kupyansk direction, the number of clashes per day increased to five. Defense forces repelled enemy attacks in the Sinkivka and Petropavlivka districts of the Kharkiv region.
In the Lyman direction, our troops stood in the way of 21 attacks by the occupiers in the areas of Grekivka, Makiivka, Nevsky in the Luhansk region, Terna in the Donetsk region, and in the Serebrian forest.
In the Siverskyi direction, the Defense Forces repelled seven attacks in the areas of Spirny and Viymka in the Donetsk region and Belogorivka in the Luhansk region.
In the Kramatorsk direction, Ukrainian defenders stopped ten attempts by the enemy to break through our defenses in the districts of Klishchiivka, Kalynyvka, Ivanivskyi and Andriivka of the Donetsk region.
In the Toretsk direction, the aggressor is quite active - he committed 18 attacks in the areas of Toretsk, Severnye and New York settlements in Donetsk region. He supported his actions with airstrikes.
In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders repelled 45 attacks by the occupiers near the settlements of Kalinove, Novooleksandrivka, Vozdvizhenka, Yevgenivka, Progress, Yasnobrodivka, Novoselivka Persha, Umanske, and Netaylove in the Donetsk region. The aggressor carried out more than half of them near Novooleksandrivka and Novoselivka Persha.
In the Kurakhiv direction, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the enemy in the areas of Krasnohorivka, Nevelske and Kostyantynivka settlements, where the enemy tried nine times to break through the defense of our troops.
In the Vremivsk direction, the enemy carried out seven attacks on our positions in the districts of Kostyantynivka, Vodyanyi, and Makarivka, Donetsk region.
Two skirmishes took place in the Orihiv The enemy was severely repulsed near Malaya Tokmachka.
In the Dnieper direction, the occupiers continue to try to knock out units of the Defense Forces from their positions on the bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper. All five attacks of the Russian invaders were unsuccessful.
On the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation has not changed significantly. No signs of formation of enemy offensive groups were detected.
On the border with the Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the enemy maintains a military presence, conducts sabotage and intelligence activities, and fires at populated areas from the territory of the Russian Federation.
"At the same time, our soldiers continue to actively inflict losses in manpower and equipment on the occupying forces, deplete the offensive potential of the enemy along the entire line of battle and in the rear," the General Staff reported.