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Russian invaders in the Zaporozhye direction during the day did not introduce active hostilities. Now they are focusing on holding their positions and preventing further advance of Ukrainian troops.
Also, the enemy continues the engineering equipment of the positions. This is evidenced by information about the operational situation in the southeast direction.
The defenders of Zaporozhye are destroying the Russians
Servicemen of the Defense Forces in the Zaporozhye direction continue to conduct defense operations, provide an adequate response to the enemy and destroy his personnel and military equipment.
So, over the past day, it was destroyed:
- personnel – 7 people, 12 wounded;
- tank – 1;
- self-propelled artillery mounts – 1;
- armored combat vehicles – 2;
- UAV “Orlan-10” – 3;
- vehicles – 4;
- mortars – 5.
- The enemy carried out a fiery defeat of the Ukrainian troops along the entire line of collision. Conducted aerial reconnaissance in order to identify and suppress the elements of the fire of our units, conducted counter-battery combat. Enemy army aviation operated near Olgovsky. Gulyaipole and the village of Preobrazhenka suffered enemy shelling.
- In addition, the enemy fired at the positions of our troops along the line of collision from the entire spectrum of weapons in the area of u200bu200bthe settlements of Orekhov, Vremovka, Olgovskoye, Zheleznodorozhnoye, Kamyshevakha, Poltavka, Belogorye, Gulyaipole, Novonikolaevka, Novopol, Novoselka, Kamenskoye, Gulyaipolskoye.
- In the territories temporarily occupied by the enemy, illegal actions against the local population continue. Measures of the administrative-police regime are being continued, the counter-intelligence regime has been strengthened. Civilians are prevented from leaving the territory controlled by Ukraine.
- The invaders carry out intimidation of representatives of legitimate local authorities, institutions and organizations, their families, in order to create pro-Russian administrations in the occupied cities. Cases of collaboration are recorded.
- The enemy also continues to exert information and psychological influence on citizens, spreading false enemy propaganda through the captured media, newsletters and public telegrams. Yes, the orcs shelled Vasilievka and blamed the APU for this.
- Over the past day, the invaders broke into the Tauride State Agrotechnological University and the Melitopol Pedagogical University with weapons. They threatened the employees to unite.
- In Malaya Tokmachka, Pologovsky district, as a result of artillery shelling by Russian rashists, a local man received a gunshot and debris wound.
- In addition, the production area, administrative a building, a canteen for convicts of the Orekhovskaya VK No. 88 and a BAZ bus belonging to a local resident.
- It is noteworthy that the following settlements remain temporarily uncontrolled areas of the region: Berdyansk district, Melitopol district, Vasilyevsky district, Pologovsky district (except the cities of Orekhov and Gulyaipole).
- The direction of humanitarian cargo to the temporarily occupied territories of the region also continues. The military-civil administration collects lists of needs and sends humanitarian supplies according to them in order to provide the residents of the districts with everything they need.
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The department stressed that units of the Zaporizhia Separate Territorial Defense Brigade continue to carry out their assigned tasks, carry out defensive operations, inflicting damage on the enemy along the entire length of the front line in the area of responsibility.