Glory to Ukraine! The five hundred and thirty-second day of large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against our state has begun. Over the past 24 hours, the enemy launched 4 missile and 53 air strikes, fired 86 rocket salvo fire strikes at the positions of our troops and populated areas.
As a result of the Russian terrorist attacks, unfortunately, there are dead and wounded among the civilian population, residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed. The probability of launching missile and air strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine remains high.
During the past 24 hours, more than 30 combat clashes took place. On the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation has not changed significantly. On the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions, the enemy carried out airstrikes in the areas of Gremyachka and Leonivka, Chernihiv region. He carried out mortar and artillery shelling of more than 30 settlements, including Volodymyrivka, Senkivka, Yasna Polyana, Gremyach of Chernihiv region; Znob-Novgorodske, Seredyna Buda, Bunyakyne, Volfine, Velika Pysarivka of the Sumy region and Strelecha, Pylna, Gatyshche, Budarky, Bologivka in the Kharkiv region. In the Kupyansk direction, our soldiers are firmly holding the defense and repelled enemy attacks in the Sinkivka district of the Kharkiv region. The enemy carried out airstrikes in the areas of Synkivka, Kotlyarivka of the Kharkiv region and Novoselivskyi of the Luhansk region. More than 10 settlements, including Dvorichna, Kucherivka, Kupyansk, Kislivka, and Berestov of the Kharkiv region, were hit by enemy artillery and mortar fire. On the Lymanskyi direction, the enemy carried out airstrikes in the areas of Bilogorivka, Luhansk Region, and Terni, Serebryanka, Spirny, Vesely, Donetsk Region. The settlements of Bilogorivka in the Luhansk region and Torske, Verkhnyokamianske, Spirne, Rozdolivka in the Donetsk region were hit by enemy artillery fire. In the Bakhmut direction, our soldiers are firmly holding the defense, successfully repulsed enemy attacks on the outskirts of Klishchiivka and in the Zaytsevo region of Donetsk region. The enemy carried out airstrikes in the populated areas of Kramatorsk, Markove, Klishchiivka, Severnye and New York of the Donetsk region. More than 15 settlements, including Chasiv Yar, Predtechine, Bila Gora, Severnye and New York of the Donetsk region, were affected by enemy artillery shelling. In the Avdiyiv direction, under heavy fire from the enemy’s aircraft and artillery, our defenders successfully repelled attacks by Russian troops in the Novokalynov, Avdiyivka and Severna regions of the Donetsk region.
The enemy carried out airstrikes in Severnoy and Pervomaisky districts of Donetsk region. Avdiivka, Tonenka, Solovyove, Pervomaiske, Karlivka of the Donetsk region were hit by artillery fire. In the Mariinsky direction, defense forces continue to hold back the advance of Russian troops in the Maryinka and Novomykhailivka regions of the Donetsk region. The enemy launched an airstrike in the Krasnohorivka region of the Donetsk region. Krasnohorivka, Gostre, Maryinka and Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk region were hit by artillery fire. On the Shakhtarsky direction, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to restore the lost position in the Staromayorsky area of the Donetsk region. He carried out airstrikes in the areas of Vremivka, Blagodatne, Staromayorske settlements of the Donetsk region. Vodyane, Vugledar, Prechistivka, Zolota Niva, Blagodatne, Staromayorske of the Donetsk region and Levadne of the Zaporizhia region were subjected to artillery fire. In the direction of Zaporizhzhia, the enemy carried out airstrikes in the districts of Novodanilivka and Robotiny of the Zaporizhzhia region. More than 15 settlements, including Rivnopil, Novodarivka, Olgivske, Pyatikhatky, Lobkovo, Kamyanaske of the Zaporizhia region, and Nikopol of the Dnipropetrovsk region, were hit by artillery fire. In the Kherson direction, the enemy carried out airstrikes in the Olhivka area of the Kherson region. More than 10 settlements were hit by enemy artillery fire, including Mykhailivka, Zmiivka, Olhivka, Mykilske, Veletenske of the Kherson region and the city of Kherson, as well as Kutsurub, Ochakiv of the Mykolaiv region. At the same time, the Defense Forces of Ukraine continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions, are entrenched at the reached boundaries, and carry out counter-battery countermeasures. Against the background of successful combat operations of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, the number of casualties in units of the Russian occupation forces has increased significantly. In particular, the number of wounded and dead servicemen of the Russian occupying forces in the Swativsk-Kreminsk direction increased sharply. In order to organize the evacuation of the wounded to Russia, medical workers of the special purpose unit 442 of the district military clinical hospital of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation arrived in the city of Svatove, Luhansk region. In particular, in the period from August 1 to 7, about 500 occupiers with gunshot wounds of various degrees of severity were sent from the above-mentioned direction to the Belhorod hospital.
At the same time, in order to hide the real number of svo