The enemy continues to focus on organizing the defense and maintaining the occupied territories, attempts to fully occupy the Donetsk region and disrupts the active operations of the defense forces in some areas. He shoots at the positions of our troops along the confrontation line, in some directions carries out measures to regroup his units, introduces reserves and does not stop conducting aerial reconnaissance.
The threat of air and missile attacks remains across Ukraine.
During the day, the enemy launched 4 missiles and 9 air strikes, carried out more than 11 attacks from multiple rocket launchers on military and civilian targets on the territory of Ukraine, violating the norms of international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war.
The infrastructure of over 24 settlements has suffered. In particular, these are Seversk, Kramatorsk, Serebryanka, Belogorovka, Controversial, Krasnogorovka, Avdeevka, Novomikhailovka, Stepnoye, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Aleksandrovka, Olgovskoe, Dry Pond, Miroliubovka and Petrovka.
On the Volyn and Polesye directions situation without significant changes.
In other directions, the enemy exerts the influence of fire from tanks, mortars and artillery, namely:
- towards Seversky – in the area of the Nikolaevka settlement, in the Chernihiv region;
- in the direction of Slobozhansky – in the areas of the settlements of Ivashki, Goptovka, Guryev, Kazachok, Kazachya Lopan, Kudeevka, Kamenka, Strelka, Glubokoe, Kupyansk and Golubovka;
- in the direction of Kramatorsk – Svyatogorsk, Raygorodok, Serebryanka, Belogorovka, Pine, Nikolaevka, Bogorodichnoe, Prishib and Grigorievka;
- towards Bakhmut – Seversk, Verkhnekamenskoye, Razdolevka, Soledar, Bakhmutskoye, Bakhmut, Veselaia Dolina, Otradovka, Veseloe, Vyemka, Nikolaevka II, New York, Alexandropol, Yurievka, Rozovka, Zaitsevo and Yakovlevka;
- in the direction of Avdeevsky – Krasnogorovka, Maryinka, Novomikhailovka, Konstantinovka, Avdeevka, Semyonovka, Poll, Karlovka and Pervomayskoye;
- on the Novopavlovsk and Zaporozhye directions – Ugledar, Bolshaya Novoselka, Belogorye, Novoandreevka, Maly Shcherbaki, Prechistovka, Novomayorskoye, Mirnoye, Dorozhnyanka, Novoye, Free Pole, Stepnoye, Malaya Tokmachka, Novoyakovlovka, Krasnoye, Novozhyeznodoroovka, Malaya Zheleznodoroovka, Malaya
Heading south the enemy fired at the entire confrontation line. More than 30 settlements suffered fire damage. Among them are Snigirevka, Shirokoye, Blagodatka, Novovoznesenskoye, Dry Pond, Mirolyubovka and Olgino.
In the training camp near the town of Torez, the invaders set up a training camp to train personnel arriving from deprived places to supply units of the 1st Army Corps that suffered losses during hostilities.
Today, units of the defense forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the Nikolaevka Vtoraya, Kurdyumovka and Zaitsevo settlements.
During the day, the aircraft of the Defense Forces hit 11 areas of concentration of enemy manpower and military equipment, a post of an anti-aircraft missile system and a composition of ammunition.
In addition, our air defense units in different directions destroyed a Su-25 aircraft, a guided missile and three enemy UAVs.
Missile troops and artillery inflicted fire damage on 5 strongholds and concentration areas of military personnel and equipment, as well as 3 ammunition depots of the occupiers. Total enemy losses are specified.
The facts of the defeat of the enemy manpower and facilities on September 18 in the Zaporozhye region were confirmed. In this direction, 10 artillery systems, 5 units of military equipment and enemy personnel were destroyed. According to the information available, the loss of the wounded amounted to more than one hundred soldiers.
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