War update: Ukrainian air forces launch 14 strikes on enemy positions

The relevant statement was made by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

In addition, Ukraine’s missile and artillery units hit three enemy personnel clusters and one Russian electronic warfare system.

Meanwhile, Russian tros launched two missile strikes and 16 air strikes, and ened fire with multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) over 15 times. The threat of enemy missile and air strikes is persisting all over Ukraine.

In the Vyn, Pissia, Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions, no enemy offensive groupings were detected. Russian and Belarusian military units continue performing tasks within the areas bordering with Ukraine.

Russian invaders continue launching mortar and artillery strikes on the positions of Ukrainian forces, as well as settlements situated close to the contact line. Over the past day, the enemy has ened fire on the Sumy region’s Vfyne and Basivka, and the Kharkiv region’s Veterynarne and Dvorichanske.

In the Kupiansk and Lyman directions, Russian tros used tanks, mortars and artillery to attack the Kharkiv region’s Dvorichna, Synkivka, Kupiansk, Stepova, Kyslivka, Krokhmalne, Berestove, Pishchane, Vyshneve and Cherneshchyna, the Luhansk region’s Stelmakhivka, Makiivka, Ploshchanka and Bilohorivka; and the Donetsk region’s Ivanivka, Spirne and Rozdivka.

In the Bakhmut direction, Russian occupiers launched mortar and artillery strikes near such settlements as Bilohorivka, Zaliznianske, Bakhmut, eksandro-Shultyne, Ozarianivka, Dyliivka and Maiorsk.

In the Avdiivka and Novavlivka directions, Russian tros used tanks, mortars and artillery to en fire on 18 settlements, including the Donetsk region’s Avdiivka, Pervomaiske, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, Marinka, Pobieda, Bohoiavlenka, Novoukrainka, Prechystivka and Zota Nyva.

In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy shelled the Donetsk region’s Vremivka and Novil, the Zaporizhzhia region’s hivske, Huliaipe, Staroukrainka, Charivne, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanylivka, Novoandriivka, Stepove and Kamianske, and the Dnipretrovsk region’s Illinka.

In the Kherson direction, Russian invaders again struck the city of Kherson with mortars and artillery.

According to the General Staff, there are more frequent cases, when the Russian mobilized sdiers attached to the 1st Army Corps of the Southern Military District refuse to take part in the offensive.

Due to huge sanitary losses among Russian invaders, a maternity home in the temporarily occupied city of Luhansk is used as a military hospital. The premises of Children’s Hospital No. 3 were also re-equipped to meet the military needs.