Enemy troops are demonstrating on the Ukrainian-Russian border.
Russian troops are strengthening the air defense system in the border areas with Ukraine. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook.
In general, the occupiers continue to provide enhanced protection of the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Bryansk and Kursk regions. In order to prevent the regrouping of Ukrainian forces and their transfer to other directions, the enemy conducts demonstrations.
As in previous days, the Russian military continues to conduct offensive operations in eastern Ukraine , and their greatest activity remains in Slobozhansky and Donetsk areas.
However, according to the General Staff, the enemy army continues suffers losses. In particular, because of this, servicemen of some units of the RF Armed Forces on the territory of Ukraine were informed about the impossibility of rotating until the end of the so-called “special operation”.
Regarding the current situation in other regions of Ukraine:
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the invaders did not take active action. Along the state border in the Brest and Gomel regions of Belarus, engineering equipment of defense positions is carried out, in the Brest and Grodno regions, meetings are held with the involvement of conscripts.
There is still a threat of missile and air strikes on Ukraine from the territory of Belarus.
In the Kharkiv direction the occupiers were forced to go to the defense to slow down the pace of the offensive of Ukrainian troops. The Russians did not carry out offensive operations there.
During the counteroffensive, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the village of Pitomnyk from Russian invaders.
At the same time, the Russian military forbids residents of the vast majority of temporarily occupied territories of the Kharkiv region to travel to Ukrainian-controlled lands. Also, the occupiers there are suppressing cellular communications to prevent the transfer of data on the movement of the Russian Armed Forces. People in many settlements are left without electricity and water.
In the Slavic direction , the Russian military has focused its efforts on creating conditions for the resumption of the offensive. They continued to replenish stocks of material and technical means.
In the Donetsk direction the enemy focused on gaining full control of the Border and conducting an offensive in the direction of the Estuary. The Russians are trying to hold positions on the right bank of the Seversky Donets River and continue preparations for the offensive in the areas of Kurakhove and Novopavlivka. The occupiers continue to fire on Ukrainian positions and increase the intensity of air reconnaissance with the help of UAVs. In addition, unsuccessful assaults were carried out in the directions of Orikhovo and Toshkivka.
In Mariupol the invaders focused their efforts on blocking and trying to destroy Ukrainian defenders at Azovstal. The Russian military inflicts artillery and air strikes.
In the Kryvyi Rih and Mykolaiv areas, the enemy did not conduct active hostilities, but fired at Ukrainian units with artillery and mortars. Conducts engineering equipment of advanced positions.
In the Black Sea and Azov sea zones Russian naval groups continue to isolate combat areas and conduct reconnaissance. From there, the occupiers launched missile strikes on important infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, provided support to ground forces on the coast and blocked civilian shipping.
Earlier, the General Staff said that since the beginning of May, Russian troops have carried out 49 missile strikes across Ukraine , firing 74 cruise and ballistic missiles from its territory. During this period, the occupiers also carried out 459 air raids.
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