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| Liberation of settlements of the Kupyanskyi and Izyumskyi districts in the Kharkiv region is in progress, - Ukrainian General Staff |
| 2022-09-12 |
| [LB] In recent days, the Ukrainian military has freed about two thousand square kilometers of Ukrainian territory from Russian occupation. by Iryna Gamalii The enemy continues to focus its efforts on establishing full control over the territory of the Donetsk region , maintaining the temporarily captured districts of the Kherson region, part of the Kharkiv region, Zaporozhye region, and Mykolaiv region. This was announced on Facebook by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the beginning of the 200th day of the heroic resistance of Ukrainians to the Russian military invasion. The enemy conducts air reconnaissance, constantly tries to improve the tactical position, takes measures to improve the logistical support of his units and conducts attacks on the positions of our troops along the entire contact line. A further threat of air and missile strikes remains on the entire territory of Ukraine. Over the past 24 hours, the enemy has carried out 16 missile and 34 air strikes on military and civilian objects on the territory of Ukraine. 28 settlements were affected by this. In particular, Slavhorod, Velyka Pisarivka, Velyki Prohody, Avdiivka, Nevelske, Maryinka, Neskuchne, Velyka Novosilka, Dnipro, and Bruskinske. The situation in the Volyn and Poliske directions has not changed significantly. In other directions, the enemy fired from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, namely: The enemy continues to suffer losses . In the Kharkiv direction, enemy units from the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division of the 20th Combined Arms Army were left without means of support, and the personnel were in a panicked mood. Also, it is known about numerous sanitary losses of the enemy in the specified direction. During the previous day, more than 75 wounded Russian soldiers were brought to the village of Valuyka in the Belgorod region, while more than a hundred occupiers were evacuated from Belgorod to Moscow. Due to significant losses in manpower, the Russian invaders plan to carry out the so-called "mobilization" of the male population in the temporarily captured territories. Now men are forbidden to leave settlements. In response to the successful actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian invaders are carrying out "countermeasures". In populated areas, in the temporarily captured territories of Kharkiv and Kherson regions, the occupiers are strengthening the administrative and police regime, entry and exit from populated areas is prohibited, and a curfew has been introduced. In Kherson, a search was made of the residential premises of the Skhidniy microdistrict, from which the Antoniv bridge can be seen. Local residents of Kakhovka and Kozatskyi were warned by the Russian military to open fire on them if they approached the crossings. At the same time, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Sosnivka, Mayorsk, Mykolaivka Druga, Zaitseve, Vesela Dolyna, Soledar, Bakhmut, Pisky, Pervomaiske and Novomykhailivka settlements. The de-occupation of Ukraine continues. In general, in recent days, about two thousand square kilometers of Ukrainian territory have been freed from Russian occupation. Our units entered Kupyansk, the liberation of settlements of Kupyansk and Izyum districts of Kharkiv region continues. During the day, in order to support the actions of the ground groups, the aviation of the Defense Forces made 23 strikes, during which four anti-aircraft missile systems were destroyed, four strongholds and fifteen places where the enemy's manpower and equipment were concentrated were hit. In addition, our air defense units destroyed two aircraft (Su-25 and Su-34), one Ka-52 helicopter, two UAVs and one guided air missile. Missile troops and artillery of ground troops continue to perform tasks of counter-battery combat, fire damage to manpower and combat equipment, disruption of the enemy's control system and logistical support. As a result of the fire, two control points of unmanned aircraft, strongholds, accumulations of weapons and military equipment of the enemy in the concentration areas were hit during the day. A pontoon crossing and enemy watercraft with military equipment on them also fell into the affected area. We will remind, according to the head of the Luhansk OVA, Serhii Gaidai, Ukrainian military personnel are on the outskirts of Lysychansk in the Luhansk region , Russian armed formations are leaving the city. |
| Posted by:badanov |