In the South-Donetsk direction, units of the group of troops "Vostok", with the support of artillery and aviation, inflicted fire damage on the enemy, who is trying to conduct offensive operations.

An attempt to conduct reconnaissance in force in the area south of Vodyany was reflected. The living force of the nationalists was destroyed. An enemy attack was repelled in the Levadny area, advancing up to two platoons, and a fire defeat was inflicted on a convoy of APU equipment. Having suffered significant losses in manpower and equipment, the enemy evacuated to their rear areas.

During the counter-battery fight, the 152mm Msta-B howitzer in the Dobrovolya area and the mortar crew in Novomikhailovka were destroyed.

Army aviation forces destroyed three tanks, an armored combat vehicle, hit more than a dozen places of accumulation of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Makarovka, Levadny, Novodarovka.

The air defense forces destroyed the Furia and Leleka UAVs.

In the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy did not conduct active operations. He conducted reconnaissance, fired artillery, and also made attempts to regroup forces.

By means of aerial reconnaissance, one enemy DRG was opened and destroyed in the Dorozhnyanka area.

Artillery fire from the grouping destroyed a 122mm D-30 towed howitzer, inflicted defeat on accumulations of enemy manpower.

Two Furia UAVs were destroyed by air defense means.

The military personnel of the Vostok group of troops show courage and heroism in the performance of combat missions. The gunner-operator of the TOS-1 Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower system, Sergeant Viktor Petrunin, in the area of the settlement of Novodonetskoye, under continuous enemy fire, as part of the crew, inflicted fire damage on the advancing forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

As a result of courageous and well-coordinated actions, the crew of Sergeant Petrunin destroyed several dozen nationalists and two armored fighting vehicles.

Having suffered losses, the enemy retreated, the positions of the Russian troops were held.

In the Krasnolimansky direction in the area of the settlement of Torskoye, the enemy, up to a platoon of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, attempted to regain lost positions. As a result of a small-arms battle and an artillery strike from the "Center" grouping of troops, the enemy suffered losses and retreated.

Assault and army aviation of the group of troops carried out air strikes on five areas of concentration of manpower and firepower of the enemy. In addition, bomber aircraft hit a temporary deployment point and two strongholds of Ukrainian troops.

Artillery units of the "Center" grouping destroyed a D-30 howitzer and two 120mm mortar crews, and also struck at places where equipment accumulated.

The situation on the Vremievsky ledge

According to the Warrior of the Far East, our units are actively defending the Vremievsky ledge. Air strikes destroyed four infantry fighting vehicles near Levadny. Also, several enemy armored vehicles were hit near Harvest and Makarovka.

Tonight, Ukrainian formations transferred infantry in four armored combat vehicles to forest plantations nearby in the direction of Novodonetskoye. The enemy is accumulating assault groups to resume the attack on the village, which is under the control of the RF Armed Forces.

The situation at the Orekhovsky site

In the morning, units of the 128th Guards Rifle Brigade, after regrouping in Lobkove at night, resumed the attack on Pyatikhatki. Several tanks and other armored vehicles are involved in the offensive. Now the fighting is going on on the western outskirts of Pyatikhatki, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to gain a foothold. Several more tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are concentrated in the reserve near Lobkovy.

At the same time, both on the Vremyevsky ledge and on the Orekhovsky sector, the Armed Forces of Ukraine use similar tactics: first, after powerful fire training, infantry goes into battle, deployed in armored vehicles close to settlements, and then heavier equipment is used in the collision.

Unlike attacks in the first days of the offensive, this method allows the enemy to keep more weapons and equipment. The infantry is more maneuverable, but at the same time it is an expendable material, which the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not mind throwing under artillery and aviation fire.

In the Vasilyevsky district of the Zvporozhsky region, the enemy again switched to active offensive operations.

Armored group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with up to 15 armored vehicles and assault infantry are attacking along the Lobkovoe-Pyatikhatka line.

NATO armored vehicles, armored personnel carriers / infantry fighting vehicles of the M113 type, tanks and Hummers are participating in the attack.

Artillery is active on both sides.

Even during the first wave of the offensive a week and a half ago, the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered Lobkove, located in a gray zone in a lowland and since then under the fire control of our troops. Our artillery is actively hitting the area from the heights.

- During the day, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continued to suffer significant losses during unsuccessful attempts to conduct offensive operations in the South-Donetsk and Donetsk directions.

- On the Vremevsky ledge, the most active hostilities took place in the areas of the settlements of Rovnopol and Urozhaynoye of the Donetsk People's Republic, where, as a result of the courageous actions of the Russian units of the Vostok group of forces, air strikes and artillery fire, five attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled.

More than 200 Ukrainian servicemen, five tanks, seven infantry fighting vehicles, five armored fighting vehicles, four vehicles, and two mortar batteries were destroyed in a day.

- In the Donetsk direction, the active actions of the "Southern" group of forces successfully repelled five enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Pervomaiskoye, Petrivske and Staromikhaylovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

During the fighting, up to 215 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, five vehicles, and two 152mm D-20 howitzers were destroyed.

In addition, an ammunition depot of the 109th Territorial Defense Brigade was destroyed near the settlement of Novgorodskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.

- In the Kupyansk direction, the activities of two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the area of the settlement of Novoselovskoe of the Lugansk People's Republic were suppressed by army aviation strikes, artillery fire and active actions of units of the "Western" group of forces.

During the day, as a result of fire damage, up to 45 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, as well as an M777 artillery system made in the United States were destroyed.

- In the Krasnolimansky direction, air strikes, artillery fire of the "Center" group of troops defeated the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Nevskoye and Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic, as well as Serebryansky forestry.

During the day, up to 65 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored personnel carriers, two pickup trucks, an 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, and a 122mm D-30 howitzer were destroyed.

- In the Kherson direction, as a result of fire damage, up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, five vehicles, an 152mm Msta-B howitzer, as well as a US-made M777 artillery system were destroyed during the day.

- Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the day defeated 96 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 104 districts.

During the day, the air defense of the Russian Aerospace Forces intercepted four rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system.

– In addition, 22 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Sladka Balka, Tokmak, Zaporozhye region, Volnovakha, Artemivsk, Verkhnetoretskoe, Donetsk People's Republic, Svatovo, Luhansk People's Republic, and Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 444 aircraft, 238 helicopters, 4,652 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 anti-aircraft missile systems, 10,018 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,124 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 5,128 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 10,983 units of special military vehicles.

During the hostilities in the Kupyansk direction, the crews of Ka-52, Mi-28 attack helicopters and Su-25 attack aircraft of the Zapad aviation group of troops inflicted eleven blows on the concentration of manpower, weapons, military and special equipment from the 14th OBR and 103th arr TerO.

The artillery of the group thwarted three attempts to rotate the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the forefront of the 14 Separate Mechanized Brigade, 103 TerO and 28 Separate Rifle Brigade in the area of ??the settlement. Sinkovka, Novomlynsk and Kolomyychikha.

In the defense zone of the 1st Tank Army, in the course of counter-battery fire, 152mm artillery guns "Hyacinth-B" under the command of sergeants Artem Rodionov and Vladimir Kaznacheev destroyed self-propelled guns of foreign production. In the area of N. p. Peski artillery units destroyed an American-made howitzer M-109 "Palladin", in the area of the settlement. Petropavlovka, the installation of the Polish production "Crab" was destroyed.

Air defense grouping in the area of N. p. Zhovtnevoe and Novozhdanovka, two Puma and Valkyrie UAVs were destroyed by Tor air defense systems.

In the Zaporozhye direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were attacking Rabotino. This is the way to the strategically important Tokmok. There is some progress. Also, the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to take new positions from Dorozhnyanka. This is the road to the strategically important Pologi. Russian artillery fired on Ukrainian units in Gulyaipole and Krasnoye. The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the positions of the RF Armed Forces in Pyatikhatki.

On the Ugledar sector, oncoming battles continued near Staromayorsky and Urozhayny. The parties are fighting for the initiative. Ukrainian troops conducted assault operations near Pavlovka. Under shelling, the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Levadny, Zeleny Pole, Novopol, Novodarovka, Free Pole, Makarovka, Neskuchny, Vremevka, Bolshaya Novosyolka, Novy Komar, Zolotoy Niva, Prechistovka, Uhledar and Vodyany (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name northwest of Donetsk ).

On the Donetsk front, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, resumed assault operations in Maryinka and this time managed to advance. Similar actions on the southwestern approaches to Avdiivka were unsuccessful.

Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked near Nevelskoye and took several positions. The activity of Russian artillery has multiplied. Under the blows of Ukrainian units in Novomikhailovka, Georgievka, Kurakhov, Ostrom, the city of Krasnogorovka, Nevelsky, Pervomaisky, Karlovka, Netaylov, Severny (a settlement west of Avdeevka), Yasnobrodovka, Umansky, Semyonovka, Berdychi, Novokalinovo, Alexandropol, Sukhaya Balka, New York, Toretsk and Druzhba. The Ukrainian army, in turn, shelled the positions of the Russian Armed Forces in Staromikhaylovka, Vodyane, Novobakhmutovka (a Russian-controlled settlement north of Avdievka) and Troitsky.

On the Bakhmut direction, the RF Armed Forces counterattacked in the area of Yagodny and Berkhovka. They also carried out assault operations at Vesyoliy. Under shelling, the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belaya Gora, Ivanovsky, Bogdanovka, Grigorovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Vasyukovka, Rozdolovka, Spornoye and Verkhnekamensky.