At night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces went on the offensive again. Heavy fighting continues

Formations of the Kyiv regime do not stop trying to break through Russian defenses in the Zaporozhye direction. The fighting went on all night and continues to this day.

The chronicle of the hostilities of the last hours is given, in particular, by military correspondent Alexander Sladkov, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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By the end of yesterday, he reported about artillery duels and smoke from the enemy in the gray zone in order to evacuate many damaged equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which was prevented by the artillery of the Russian Armed Forces.

According to him, he attacked in three columns of 7-10 infantry fighting vehicles.

“I know the initial statistics, but the Ministry of Defense will give general results tomorrow. It is clear that from the first minutes, significant damage was caused to the columns of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The battle continues,” Sladkov wrote.

Later he added that “information about the breakthrough of positions towards Rabotino is being clarified,” but clarified that “the front line remains unchanged,” and the army aviation of the Russian Armed Forces was involved in combat work.

“Zaporozhye direction. Orekhovo. There is a heavy battle going on for many hours. The enemy trying to break through at the junction of two units was stopped. The artillery is working non-stop. The front line is stable. Russian forces are fighting and not retreating,” Sladkov wrote this morning.

However, the tg-channel Wargonzo of military correspondent Semyon Pegov notes some of the successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in its morning report.

“In the Zaporizhzhya direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an attack on Lobkovoe and had tactical success. Two roads converge in the village. However, they have no operational significance. To the east, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continued their attack on Rabotino. Russian artillery and aviation attacked Ukrainian units in Stepnoye, Malye Shcherbaki, Shcherbaki, Novoandreevka, Orekhov, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka and Belogorye. The Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a missile strike on Berdyansk,” the author reports.

“In the Ugledar sector, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out assault operations in the Neskuchny area. The positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Vremevka, Zolotaya Niva, Shakhterskoye, Prechistovka and Ugledar are under fire,” Pegov’s channel continues.

“On the Donetsk front, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to counterattack in Marinka. In turn, units of the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, resumed assault operations near Pervomaisky, on the southwestern approaches to Avdeevka and in the Severny area (a populated area northwest of Gorlovka). The last of the listed areas became a new active direction of action for Russian troops.

The positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Novomikhailovka, Pobeda, Georgievka, Maksimilyanovka, Ostrom, the city of Krasnohorivka, Karlovka, Stepnoe (not to be confused with the point of the same name near the contact line in the Zaporozhye direction), Berdychi and Toretsk are under fire. The Ukrainian army carried out attacks on Donetsk, Opytny and Gorlovka,” reports the public on battles in other directions.

The situation in the Artemovsk direction continues to be difficult.

“Southwest of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian army managed to advance to Kleshcheevka. After the artillery strikes, the Russian Armed Forces tried to counterattack near Ivanovsky. No success. To the southwest of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out assault operations in the area of ​​Berkhovka and Dubovo-Vasilevka. And units of the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, tried to advance to Vesyoly. The positions of Ukrainian troops in Belaya Gora, Alexandro-Shultin, Stupochki, Bogdanovka, Grigorovka, Vasyukovka, Nikiforovka, Rozdolovka, Zvanovka, Ivano-Daryevka, Sporny, Verkhnekamensky and Seversk are under fire,” the report states.

The military public “Archangel of Special Forces” draws attention to the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are not giving up attempts to encircle the Russian group:

“Intense fighting on the Zaporozhye front. Our aviation operates against enemy equipment. They are trying to create a strong strike force to encircle our troops, and are also trying to catch on to our forward positions.”