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| A day at the front: the offensive in the Kharkiv direction continues, in total there were 116 combat clashes during the day |
| 2024-05-31 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [LB] As before, defenders repulsed the greatest number of attacks on Pokrovsky. by Iryna Lysohor In the Kharkiv direction, the Russians continue to carry out offensive actions. Last day there were nine combat clashes. Fighting took place, in particular, in the area of ​​the settlements of Liptsi, Staritsa, and Vovchansk. 15 combat clashes took place in the Kupyansk direction . The defenders successfully repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Sinkivka, Petropavlivka, Stepova Novoselivka, Druzhelyubivka of the Kharkiv region, Novoyehorivka, Nevske of the Luhansk region. The spokesman of the General Staff, Andriy Kovalev, announced this on the air of the telethon. In the Luhansk direction, the enemy made nine attempts to break through the defenses of the troops in the area of ​​Terniv, Torsky and in the Serebryansk forest. In the Siversky direction, the army of Ukraine repelled five attacks in the area of ​​the settlements of Bilogorivka, Luhansk region, Vyimka, Rozdolivka, Donetsk region. In Kramatorsk, defenders repelled seven attacks in the Klishchiivka, Novy, Ivanivskyi, and Bohdanivka districts of the Donetsk region. In Pokrovsky, the defenders repelled 35 attacks by the occupiers in the area of ​​Novooleksandrivka, Sokil, Progress, Novoselivka Persha, Nevelske, and Yasnobrodivka settlements. The enemy, supported by aviation, tried to knock out the defenders. In Kurakhivsk, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the enemy in the area of ​​Krasnohorivka, Vodyane, Kostyantynivka, and Paraskoviivka settlements, where the enemy tried to break through the defense 12 times. The Russians used aviation. On Vremivskyi, the enemy made seven unsuccessful attempts to break through the defenses in the direction of Staromayorskyi. In Orihivskyi, the Ukrainian army repelled five attacks in the areas of Mali Shcherbaki and Mala Tokmachka settlements. The occupiers launched seven unsuccessful attacks on Prydniprovskyi . In total, 116 combat clashes took place during the day. The occupiers launched five missile strikes, 58 airstrikes using 94 anti-aircraft missiles, conducted more than 3,000 attacks, including 127 with the use of rocket salvo systems. That night, Russia conducted a combined air attack with cruise missiles and attack drones . The defenders shot down seven of 11 missiles and 32 unmanned aerial vehicles. |
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