The enemy is trying to strengthen the course of operations in eastern Ukraine to surround the Joint Forces group.
The Russian occupiers were preparing for an attack on Severodonetsk, and were also focusing their forces on taking the cities of Popasnaya and Rubizhnoye under full control. All these cities are located in the Lugansk region, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the summary of the night on Saturday, April 23.
“In the direction of Donetsk and Taurida, the main enemy efforts were focused on taking control of the communities of Popasnaya, Rubizhnoye and preparing for an attack on the city of Severodonetsk. In the settlement area of Maryinka and in most other directions, the opponent has no victory during the fight, ”the statement said. message.
At the same time, in the direction of Slobozhansky, the enemy continued to partially blockade Kharkov, stabbing the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and civilian infrastructure in the area of the communities of Chuguev, Korobochkino and Dovgenkoye.
In the direction of Yuzhnobuzhsky, the enemy did not conduct active offensive operations, but used only the single shelling of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from cannon artillery.
On the northern border of Ukraine, the Russian occupiers did not conduct active operations, and the Ukrainian intelligence did not record the formation of offensive enemy groups.
Ukrainian intelligence reported that the Russian occupiers had great difficulty in providing medical support to their units and evacuating the wounded. The protagonist is seriously lacking in drugs.
In Balakliya, Kharkiv region, the occupiers, in addition to their own hospital in the military field, began to use the city’s polyclinic to accommodate and treat the wounded due to the increasing number of wounded.
Due to problems with replenishment of reserves, the Russian occupiers forced the inhabitants of the Kherson region to fight Ukraine.
To move military cargo, the enemies used confiscated civilian trucks in the occupied territories, as well as luring agricultural equipment stolen from local residents.
Earlier, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said Russia was completing a regrouping for the offensive. And the fighting that started this week is an attempt to identify the most vulnerable areas for the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Source: korrespondent
