The Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to conduct an offensive operation in the direction of Melitopol.
During the day, 22 combat clashes took place on the front. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on the evening of September 4.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to conduct an offensive operation in the direction of Melitopol, consolidate the achieved lines, and carry out counter-battery measures.
Aviation of the Defense Forces during the day delivered 11 strikes on areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, two – on enemy anti-aircraft missile systems.
Rocket and artillery units hit 11 artillery weapons in firing positions and four enemy command posts in one day.
It was noted that during the day the Russians launched 5 missiles and 68 air strikes, carried out 42 shelling from multiple rocket launch systems on the positions of Ukrainian troops and communities. There are dead and wounded among the civilian population. Residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed.
According to the General Staff, the operational situation in the Volyn and Polesye directions has not changed significantly.
On the directions of Seversky and Slobozhansky, the troops of the Russian Federation carried out mortar and artillery shelling of more than 15 settlements, this is, in particular, Karpovichi, Development of the Chernihiv region, Novaya Guta, Romashkovo, Bugor , Malushino, Sumy and Udy regions, Volchansk, Volchansky Khutory, Gatishche, Ogurtsovo, Ternovaya in Kharkiv region.
In the direction of Kupyansk, the Russians launched an air strike in the Budarkov region of the Kharkov region. More than 10 settlements were subjected to artillery shelling, among them Figolovka, Dvurechnaya, Kondrashovka, Sinkovka, Kislovka of the Kharkov region.
Under Liman’s direction, the Russian army conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the Novoegorovka and Belogorovka areas of the Luhansk region. Air strikes were carried out in the areas of Belogorovka, Luhansk region, Yampolevka and Disputable, Donetsk region. More than 10 settlements came under enemy artillery shelling, including Nevskoye, Belogorovka in the Lugansk region and Disputed, Razdolevka, Serebryanka, Verkhnekamenskoye in the Donetsk region.
Under the direction of Bakhmut, the Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully repelled attacks by Russian troops in the area north of Kleshchievka, Donetsk region. The enemy launched an air strike in the Ivanovsky area, Donetsk region. More than 15 settlements came under enemy artillery shelling, including Minkovka, Vasyukovka, Bogdanovka, Chasov Yar, Belaya Gora, Pivnichnoye in the Donetsk region.
In the direction of Avdeevka, the Russians launched an air strike in the Avdeevka area. The settlements of Alexandropol, Novokalinovo, Keramik, Avdeevka, Severnoye, Pervomayskoye of the Donetsk region were fired from artillery and mortars.
In the direction of Maryinka, the Defense Forces continue to prevent the advance of Russian troops in the area of Maryinka, Donetsk region. An air strike was carried out near Krasnogorovka. The settlements of Krasnogorovka, Maryinka, Ostroe, Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk region were subjected to artillery shelling.
In the direction of Shakhtyorsk, Russian troops launched an air strike in the Vogledar area. More than 10 settlements were subjected to artillery shelling, among them Vuhledar, Vodyane, Shakhterskoye, Novoukrainka, Urozhaynoye in the Donetsk region.
In the direction of Zaporozhye, the Russian army launched air strikes in the areas of Malaya Tokmachka, Orekhova, Rabotino, Stepnogorsk, Zaporozhye region. More than 15 settlements came under artillery shelling, including Novodarovka, Olgovskoe, Zaliznichnoe, Malaya Tokmachka, Rabotino, Kamianske, Zaporozhye region.
In the direction of Kherson, the enemy launched air strikes in the areas of Tyaginka and Molodyozhny. Burgunka, Kherson region, suffered artillery and mortar shelling.
Recall that the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled the offensive in three directions.
It was also reported that over the past day, the Russian army has lost 460 soldiers in Ukraine.
Source: korrespondent
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