Glory to Ukraine! The two hundred-twentieth (220) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues.

The enemy continues to focus its efforts on attempts to fully occupy the Donetsk oblast, to hold the captured territories, as well as to disrupt the active actions of the Defence Forces in certain directions. The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the entire contact line, conducting aerial reconnaissance. Attacks civilian infrastructure and civilian homes, violating international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war. There remains the threat of the enemy launching air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine.

The enemy launched 3 missile and 5 air strikes, carried out more than 16 MLRS attacks. In addition, the enemy used unmanned aerial vehicles to launch strikes on infrastructure facilities.

More than 11 settlements were affected by enemy strikes. These are, in particular, Bakhmut, Trudove, Bohoyavlenka, Novoukrainka, Zaliznychne, Illinka, Nikopol, Blahodativka, Mykolayiv, Ochakiv and Odesa.

The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly.

In other directions, the enemy fired from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery:

The enemy did not conduct active offensive operations in the Zaporizhzhya direction. Fire damage was inflicted by the enemy in the areas of sixteen settlements. Among them are Orihiv, Hulyaipole, Zaporizhzhya and Matviyivka.

Areas of more than twenty-five settlements near the contact line were shelled by tanks, mortars, and barrel artillery in the South Buh direction.

russian occupation forces continue to suffer losses in manpower, weapons and military equipment. Only as a result of fire damage to an enemy object in the Zolote district of Luhansk oblast, the enemy lost about sixty people killed and wounded, as well as four units of military equipment.

russian military leadership carefully tries to hide the loss of personnel in this war.

At the same time, the political leadership of the russian federation continues to search for ways to replenish losses in manpower. In particular, due to the legalization of the participation of prisoners in the war. According to available information, a draft law on changes in the criminal code of the russian federation, which provides for the serving of punishment in the area of hostilities, has been submitted to the State Duma of Russia.

In the temporarily captured territory of Ukraine, the russian occupation authorities, grossly violating the rules of warfare and human rights, intensified measures for the forced mobilization of the male population of conscription age to replenish the losses of russian military units. For the timely implementation of mobilization measures and suppression of the resistance of the local population, additional units of the russian guard arrived in the cities of Berdyansk and Melitopol.

During the day, the Defence Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Kozacha Lopan, Bakhmut, Vesela Dolyna, Zaitseve and Pervomaiske settlements.

To support the actions of the land groups, the Air Force of the Defense Forces carried out 21 strikes during the day. It was confirmed that the enemy's stronghold, 17 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 3 enemy anti-aircraft missile systems were hit. In addition, our air defence units shot down one UAV.

Rocket forces and artillery hit 4 command posts, 4 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment. Also, 2 warehouses with ammunition fell into the affected area.

Let's stick together! Together we will win! Glory to Ukraine!