The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed the information that Russian troops were trying to advance in the Zaporizhzhya direction. Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Russia reported on the activation of actions in this direction.
“The forces of the Russian Federation conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the Avdeevsky direction. Attempts to attack the Bakhmut and Zaporizhzhya directions continue, increase the intensity of the use of aviation. In other directions they keep the defense.
The Russian army does not stop artillery shelling along the entire line of collision. Settlements in the Sumy and Kharkov regions were injured from mortar and artillery fire of the Russian Federation, ”the summary of the Ukrainian General Staff says.