It is the 94th day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people as the Russian aggression continues. The fiercest battles are reported from the Donbas region. Meanwhile, the Ukraine’s military intelligence sources report on military moves of Belarussian and Russian armies near the state borders of Ukraine. Russian aggressors continue pounding civilian targets with artillery, missile attacks and aerial bombardment.
Over the past 24 hours, as a result of counteroffensive efforts by Ukraine’s forces, the enemy lost “63 men and 19 units of military equipment, including three modern T-72 main battle tanks, five other armored vehicles, and two trucks, as well as a Grad MLRS, a self-propelled gun, a warplane, and six helicopters,” the statement of the Operational Command South reads, Ukrinform reports.
Military movements in Belarus
In the Volyn and Polissya areas, certain units of the Armed Forces of Belarus continue to taking moves to fortify its borders with Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Saturday morning.
Electronic warfare maneuver groups conduct reinforcement operations along the state border of Ukraine. Training of the Belarusian reserve officers continues, for the needs of the Air Force and Air Defense, Ukraine’s General Directorate of Military Cooperation reports.
The 9K720 Iskander-M (SS-26 Stone) mobile short-range ballistic missile system division moved to the Luninets area of the Brest region in Belarus.
These maneuvers are an evidence that threats of air strikes on infrastructure facilities and units of the Ukraine’s Defense Forces from the territory of Belarus remains, as reported by col. Genadyy Shapoval of the Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
Other intelligence sources told Civil.Today that the Russian Iskander missile systems are obsolete and mostly out of order due to poor maintenance and lack of reserve parts, but still posing a certain level of threat.
Kharkiv region, military moves in Russia, near the state border with Ukraine
Russian forces are strengthening in the regions of Bryansk and Kursk, intelligence report says. In the direction Slobozhansk, Russian forces fired at units of Ukraine troops to prevent their further advance towards the Ukraine – Russia state border, north and northeast of the city of Kharkiv. Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported that Russians are trying to fix their logistics and replenish losses. No Russian active offensive operations are recorded in the last 24 hours in that region.
Yet, Russian forces continued targeting civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Ternov, Prudyanka, Ruski Tyshky, Kutuzivka, Varvarivka, Petrivka, Mykhailivka, Korobochkino, and others in the Kharkiv region.
In the eastern part of the country, in the Slovyansk direction, the Russian forces remained in their positions and only conducted intensive reconnaissance. The main efforts of the Russian army in this area were on maintaining occupied positions, replenishing losses and stocks, as well as creating conditions to resume its offensive.
Artillery shelling and bombardment of civilian targets in the Eastern regions
The Russian artillery targeted civilian infrastructure in the settlements of Studenok, Sviatohirsk, Bohorodychne, Karnaukhivka, and Virnopillya. Russian air forces continued to strike the village of Dovgenke.
“With the support of artillery, it tried to develop offensive operations in the area of the settlement of Pasika, but was unsuccessful, and withdrew,” col. Shapoval reports.
In the Donetsk direction, the Russian army is conducting active offensive operations. It continues the attack on Ukraine’s forces along the line of contact. The reports from the battle zone speak of Russian missile strikes and increased intensity of operational-tactical operations of the aviation.
“In the Lyman direction, the Russian enemy continued shelling with mortars and multiple rocket launchers in the areas of Ozerne and Dibrova, where it struck airstrikes. It is trying to gain a foothold in the area of the Lyman settlement,” Ukraine’s Forces report.
Civil Today’s News Desk Team compiled this report
