The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on the situation at the front: the enemy is most active in the Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions.
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The enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to defeat the Joint Forces grouping / photo by the press service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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Over the past day, Ukrainian fighters repelled 8 enemy attacks in Donbas.
The General Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports this on Facebook in operational information as of 6:00 am on April 23.
“Only in the territory of Donetsk and Lugansk regions over the past day, eight enemy attacks were repulsed, nine tanks, eighteen armored units and thirteen vehicles, a tanker, three artillery systems were destroyed,” the statement said.
It is noted that the enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to defeat the Joint Forces grouping, establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and ensure a land route between these territories and the occupied Crimea.
The largest enemy activity observed on Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions. The occupiers’ units are regrouping.
The enemy does not stop inflicting missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure.
On Volynsky, Polessky and Seversky directions certain units of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus carry out tasks to strengthen the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions. In order to clarify the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Sumy direction, the enemy used a UAV from the area of the settlement of Glushkovo.
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The threat of air and missile strikes from the indicated directions remains. In addition, it is not excluded that the enemy will carry out provocations on the Ukrainian-Russian border with the accusation of representatives of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
On the Tauride and Yuzhnobugsky directions an enemy force grouping is operating, consisting of separate units of the 8th and 49th combined-arms armies, the 22nd army corps, coastal troops of the Black Sea Fleet of the Southern Military District and airborne troops. The enemy is concentrating his main efforts on improving his tactical position and holding the lines he has occupied.
In order to create favorable conditions for advancing in the direction of the city of Nikolaev, the enemy fires at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. To build up the air defense system in the area of the city of Skadovsk, the enemy deployed the S-300VM battery.
On the Slobozhansky direction the grouping of enemy troops continues to partially block Kharkov and fire at it from cannon and rocket artillery.
Separate units of the 1st Tank Army and the 20th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District, the 35th Combined Arms Army and the 68th Army Corps of the Eastern Military District and airborne troops are conducting offensive and assault operations south of Izyum. The enemy conducts aerial reconnaissance of positions and measures to organize fire support for the offensive and organize logistical support for the grouping.
According to available information, units of the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade, which took an active part in the massacres, torture and violence against the civilian population in the Ukrainian city of Bucha, are operating in the area of the Izium settlement and have already suffered losses.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy conducts offensive operations along the entire line of contact. The enemy is concentrating his main efforts on offensive operations in the Severodonetsk direction, is exercising intense fire pressure on our troops in order to drive them out and create conditions for the development of an offensive against Slavyansk. The offensive continues in the direction of Novotoshkovsky and assault operations in the areas of Rubizhne, Popasna and Maryinka.
On the Mariupol direction The enemy continues to block the units of the Defense Forces in the area of the Azovstal plant and inflict air strikes on the city, in particular, using long-range aircraft. An engineering unit arrived in the occupied city to clear the port infrastructure of Mariupol.
On the Zaporozhye direction The enemy moved a battalion tactical group from the 19th Motorized Rifle Division of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District to reinforce its grouping.
As part of the formation of additional reserves, the preparation of the Wagner private military campaign unit of up to 200 people has been completed. The advance group of the unit was transferred to the Novobakhmutovka area to reconnoiter the area and clarify the procedure for interaction. The information is being specified.
On the Yuzhnobugsky direction the enemy is trying to improve his tactical position and gain a foothold on the administrative borders of the Kherson region. Incurs significant losses in technology.
In the Black Sea and Azov operational zones enemy ship groupings in the waters of the Black and Azov seas continue to carry out tasks to isolate the combat area and conduct reconnaissance.
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