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Russian occupiers tried to storm Andriivka and Robotina, which had been released earlier, - General Staff
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] During the day, 15 combat clashes took place at the front.

by Vera Perun

In the direction of Bakhmut, the Defense Forces successfully repelled the attack of the Russians in the area west of Yagidny, Donetsk region. The occupiers also tried to restore their lost position in the Andriyivka area of ​​the Donetsk region, but were unsuccessful.

This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine .

In addition, in the Zaporizhzhia direction, the Defense Forces successfully repelled an enemy attack in the Robotyn region of the Zaporizhzhia region.

During the day, the aviation of the Defense Forces made 16 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, and two - on the enemy's anti-aircraft missile systems.

Units of the missile forces hit three control points, an anti-aircraft missile complex, nine artillery pieces, an ammunition depot and the enemy's EW station.

Today, Russia launched another aerial attack on Ukraine with the "Shahed-136/131" type UAVs. According to detailed information, air defense destroyed 28 out of 31 "shaheda" along the tracking route in the southern, central and western regions of Ukraine. And the population of the city of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region, was affected by the Iskander-M ballistic missile strike.

In total, the enemy launched nine rocket and 67 air strikes that day, and fired 40 rocket salvo fire systems.

15 combat clashes took place during the day.

The situation at the front as of 18:00 on September 19 is as follows:

on the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation has not changed significantly;

in Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi , the enemy maintains a military presence in the border areas, continues shelling of populated areas from the territory of the Russian Federation. Carried out airstrikes near Leonivka, Popivka, Chernihiv region, and Hrabovsky, Sumy region. More than 30 settlements, including Karpovychi, Arkhipivka, Gremyach of Chernihiv region, were hit by artillery and mortar attacks; Gavrilova Sloboda, Seredyna-Buda, Obody, Veselyvka of the Sumy Region and Ambarne, Stroivka, Topoli of the Kharkiv Region;

on Kupiansk, the enemy carried out an air strike in the Ivanivka and Kupiansk districts of Kharkiv region. More than 10 settlements, including Krasne Pershe, Liman Pershey, Synkivka, Kotlyarivka, Krokhmalne, and Berestov of the Kharkiv region, were hit by artillery and mortar attacks;

in Lymanskyi, areas of the settlements of Bilogorivka, Luhansk region, and Spirne, Donetsk region, were hit by enemy airstrikes. More than 10 settlements were affected by artillery and mortar shelling, among them Bilogorivka of Luhansk region and Torske, Yampil, Dronivka, Spirne, Berestov of Donetsk region;

in Bakhmutsky, the enemy carried out airstrikes near Bohdanivka and Klishchiivka, Donetsk region. More than 25 settlements came under artillery and mortar fire, including Bohdanivka, Ivanivske, Stupochki, Klishchiivka, Andriivka, Kurdyumivka of the Donetsk region;

on Avdiivsky, the enemy carried out an airstrike near Avdiivka, Donetsk region. About 10 settlements, including Keramik, Stepove, Avdiivka, Severne, Pervomaiske, and Nevelske of the Donetsk region, were hit by artillery and mortar shelling;

on Maryinka during the day, our defenders successfully repelled 10 enemy attacks in the Maryinka area of ​​the Donetsk region. The enemy carried out an airstrike in the Krasnohorivka area of ​​the Donetsk region. Artillery and mortar shelling by the enemy did not abate in this area either. About 10 settlements came under the fire of the occupiers, among them Maryinka, Pobieda, Maksimilianivka, Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk region;

in Shakhtarskyi, areas of the settlements of Vugledar, Urozhane, Staromayorske of the Donetsk region were hit by enemy airstrikes. The occupiers shelled about 10 settlements with artillery and mortars, including Vodyane, Vugledar, Prechistivka, Blagodatne, and Urozhayne of the Donetsk region;

in Zaporizhzhia, the enemy carried out airstrikes near Levadny and Mala Tokmachka, Zaporizhzhia region. More than 25 settlements were hit by artillery and mortar attacks, in particular, Charivne, Biloghirya, Orihiv, Shcherbaki, Kamianske of the Zaporizhzhia region;

in the Kherson region, the enemy carried out airstrikes in the areas of Vesele, Olhivka, Lviv, Tyaginka, Tokarivka, and Sadov settlements of the Kherson region. About 10 settlements, including Antonivka and Kherson of the Kherson region, were hit by artillery and mortar attacks.

Defense forces of Ukraine continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Melitopol direction, offensive (assault) actions in the Bakhmut direction, inflict losses in manpower and equipment on the occupying forces, exhaust the enemy.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces added that the Russian occupiers cynically continue to violate the norms of international humanitarian law.

Invaders forcibly cohabit with civilians in their homes, using civilians as human shields. For example, in the Tokmak settlement of the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian servicemen are being resettled en masse with elderly civilians in their homes. In addition, the occupiers are robbing the apartments and houses of the citizens of our state.

We will remind, on August 23, fighters of the 47th separate mechanized brigade raised the flag of Ukraine in the village of Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia region. And on September 18, the third assault brigade raised the flag of Ukraine over Andriivka, liberated from the enemy.


Posted by: badanov 2023-09-20
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