The General Staff announced the situation at the front

The Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to conduct an offensive operation in the directions of Melitopol and Berdyansk. The General Staff reported this in the evening summary on August 8.

Aviation of the Defense Forces in the previous day delivered 9 strikes on the places of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the Russian Federation. During the day, missile and artillery units hit two command posts, five artillery firing positions, an ammunition train and two Russian electronic warfare stations.

It was noted that during the day the enemy launched three missiles and 47 air strikes, carried out 55 shelling from multiple launch rocket systems on the positions of our troops and communities. As a result of the Russian terrorist attack, there were dead and wounded among the civilian population, residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed.

During the day, about 20 battles took place on the front.

According to the General Staff, the operational situation in the Volyn and Polesye directions has not changed significantly.

In the directions of Seversky and Slobozhansky The Russian Federation launched air strikes in the Gremyachka and Leonovka regions of the Chernihiv region. Mortar and artillery shelling of more than 15 settlements was carried out, in particular Vladimirovka, Sinkovka, Yasna Polyana of the Chernihiv region; Atinskoye, Stepok, Sumy region and Strelka, Dusty, Gatishche in Kharkiv region.

In the direction of Kupyansky The Armed Forces of Ukraine firmly held the defense.

The enemy launched air strikes in the areas of Sinkovka and Kotlyarovka in the Kharkov region and Novoselovsky in the Luhansk region. More than 10 settlements came under enemy artillery and mortar attack, among them Figolovka, Novomlinsk, Dvurechnaya, Kucherivka, Kupyansk of the Kharkov region.

Directed by Liman The Russians launched air strikes in the areas of Belogorovka, Luhansk region, and Ternov, Serebryanka, Disputed, and Vesele, Donetsk region. The settlements of Belogorovka in the Luhansk region and Verkhnekamennoye, Spirny, Razdolovka in the Donetsk region were subjected to enemy artillery shelling.

In the direction of Bakhmut The Ukrainian military firmly held the line, successfully repelling enemy attacks around Klescheevka, Donetsk region. The enemy launched air strikes in the Kramatorsk, Markovo, Klishchievka, Severnoye and New York areas of the Donetsk region. More than 10 settlements suffered from enemy artillery attacks, including Vasyukovka, Orekhovo-Vasilovka, Markovo, Bogdanovka, Ivanovskoye, Donetsk region.

In the direction of Avdeevsky, under strong enemy winds and artillery fire, our defenders successfully repelled the attacks of Russian troops in the areas of Avdiivka and Northern Donetsk region. The enemy launched air strikes in the areas of the Northern and Pervomaisky Donetsk regions. Artillery attacks were carried out in Avdiyivka, Tonenkoe, Solovyovoe, Pervomayskoe and Karlovka in the Donetsk region.

Directed by Maryinsky defense forces continue to prevent the advance of Russian troops in the Marinka area. The enemy launched an air strike in the Krasnogorovka area. Krasnogorovka, Ostroe, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk region came under artillery shelling.

In the Mining area the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to restore the lost position in the Staromayorsk region. An air strike was carried out in the areas of Vremivka, Blagodatny and Staromayorsky in the Donetsk region. Artillery fired at Vodyanoe, Vuhledar, Prechistovka, Zolotaya Niva, Blagodatnoye, Staromayorskoe in Donetsk region and Levadnoe in Zaporozhye.

In the direction of Zaporozhye The Russian army carried out air strikes in the areas of Novodanilovka and Robotinoe in the Zaporozhye region. More than 15 settlements were subjected to artillery shelling, among them – Malinovka, Gulyaypole, Zheleznodorozhnoye, Gulyaypilske, Maly Shcherbaki of Zaporozhye region and Nikopol of Dnipropetrovsk region.

In the direction of Kherson more than 10 settlements were subjected to enemy artillery shelling, among them – Nikolskoye, Huge Kherson region and the city of Kherson, as well as Kutsurub and Ochakov in the Nikolaev region.

It is also reported that Russia continues to illegally integrate the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine into its socio-political space. So, in the settlement of Stulnevo, Zaporozhye region, the occupiers began preparations for agitation before the so-called “elections” in the occupied territories on a voting day in Russia on September 10th. The arrival of representatives from the party is expected United Russia to create groups of agitators and informers from local collaborators.

It will be remembered that the Armed Forces of Ukraine responded to Russia’s statement about the “strike on the Khortytsya command post.” The spokesman of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Sergei Cherevaty, rejected the new Kremlin propaganda statement.

It was previously reported that the Ukrainian military has repelled a Russian attack in the east.

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