13.08.2024 – Translated from Ukrainian via Google and OFP
The Russian occupation army continues its offensive in many directions in an attempt to break through the defense of Ukrainian troops. During the day, 134 combat clashes were recorded on the front.
The most active military actions continue in the Pokrovsk direction. This is stated in the report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the morning of August 13.
During the day, Russian troops launched two missile strikes on Ukrainian units and populated areas using seven missiles, as well as 67 air strikes, dropping 96 guided bombs. In addition, the enemy launched more than 4,400 attacks, including 123 from multiple launch rocket systems.
The areas under air strikes were the settlements of Zapselye, Mogrytsa, Velykyi Prykil, Olshanka, Sennoe, Velyka Rybitsa, Partizanske, Yunakovka, Loknya, Vakalovshchina, Glukhov, Pokrovka, Veselovka, Manukhovka, Grunivka in Sumy Oblast; Novovodanoye in Luhansk Oblast; Toretsk, Nelipovka, New York, Dilievka, Druzhba, Alexandropol, Novodonetske, Mirnograd, Vodyanoye in Donetsk Oblast; Gulyaipole in Zaporizhia Oblast; Burgunka in Kherson Oblast.
In turn, the aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces carried out 11 strikes on areas where enemy personnel and military equipment were concentrated, and also hit a command post and artillery system.
Three battles were fought in the Kharkov direction. The defense forces repelled the enemy’s assault actions near Volchansk and Tikhe.
In the Kupyansk direction, 12 military clashes took place, in particular, near Berestovoye, Stelmakhovka, Glushkovka, Sinkovka, Petrovpavlovka, Kruglyakovka and Andreyevka.
In the Liman direction, according to updated information, the enemy attacked 24 times near Makeyevka, Nevsky, Torsky and Terny.
Four combat clashes took place in the Seversky direction. Ukrainian defenders repelled assault actions by Russian invaders near Verkhnekamenskoye and Spornoye.
In the Kramatorsk direction, seven battles took place in the areas of Chasov Yar and Bogdanovka.
In the Toretsk direction, the Russians attacked 10 times near Zheleznoye, Toretsk and New York.
In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders repelled 52 enemy assaults in the areas of the settlements of Kalinovo, Sukhaya Balka, Elizavetovka, Zelenoe Pole, Novoaleksandrovka, Grodovka, Nikolaevka, Zhelannoe, Skuchnoe, Panteleimonovka, Timofeyevka, Novozhelannoe, Ptichye, Vozdvizhenka. The greatest concentration of attacks was near Grodovka and Zhelannoe.
In the Kurakhovsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled eight enemy attacks near Paraskoveevka, Georgievka, Krasnogorovka, Kalinovoye and Konstantinovka.
In the Vremevsky direction, the enemy attacked six times in the direction of Vodyanoye, Konstantinovka and Ugledar.
In the Orekhov direction, Russian troops carried out two assaults on the positions of Ukrainian units near Novoandreyevka.
In the Dnipro direction, the enemy suffered a defeat, attacking the Ukrainian defensive lines six times.
The situation in the Gulyai-Polye direction has not changed much.
No signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn and Polesie directions.
On the border with the Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the enemy maintains a military presence and carries out mortar and artillery shelling of populated areas from Russian territory.
At the same time, our soldiers continue to actively inflict significant losses in manpower and equipment on the occupation forces, exhausting the enemy along the entire line of combat engagement.
In total, over the past 24 hours, the total losses of the Russian invaders amounted to 1,160 people. Our soldiers neutralized five tanks, 17 combat armored vehicles, 36 artillery systems, one air defense system, 19 operational-tactical level UAVs, 59 cars and five units of special equipment.
Let us recall that the occupiers continue to concentrate their efforts on several front lines – they are putting pressure on the Kharkiv region and are not abandoning their attempts to capture the entire territory of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Earlier, the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that recently the occupiers have increased the total number of shellings in the Pokrovsk direction of the front and at the same time reduced infantry assaults. For their part, Ukrainian servicemen are holding the defense and exhausting the enemy’s combat potential.
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