Ukrainian forces repel over 40 Russian attacks in four sectors — General Staff

According to Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said this in an evening update posted to Facebook.

“The enemy, at the cost of heavy losses, continues to focus its main efforts on conducting offensive action in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka directions. Throughout the day, more than 40 enemy attacks were repelled in the said areas of the front,” the update reads.

In total, Ukrainian combat aircraft carried out seven strikes on Russian troop concentration areas. Ukrainian rocket and artillery units, in turn, hit two areas where enemy manpower, weapons and military equipment were stationed, as well as two enemy ammunition depots.

During the day, the Russian army launched 3 missile strikes and 37 air strikes, including using drones, as well as 57 attacks using multiple launch rocket systems against the positions of Ukraine’s defense forces and populated areas.

As a result of enemy attacks, civilian casualties were recorded and private residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed and damaged.

It was established that in the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region, in the village of Kabychivka, Russian pseudo-authorities gave an order to deploy a 40-bed military hospital for the invaders in the local house of culture. Russian military doctors should arrive at the newly created “medical facility” by the end of the week.

At the same time, Russia continues to use the civilian population of the temporarily occupied territories for its own purposes, using people as a “human shield.” In particular, in the temporarily captured city of Skadovsk, Kherson region, the invaders began to force all collaborators and those who cooperate with them to sign a commitment to ban people from leaving the district.