General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: The twelfth era of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the russian military invasion is coming to an end.
The enemy continues the offensive operation against Ukraine with the support of aircraft and missile strikes, focusing its main efforts on the following tasks: providing a land corridor between the TOT of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the mainland of the russian federation; taking full control of the city of Mariupol; encirclement with further capture of the city of Kyiv, as well as access to the administrative borders of Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
During the day, the enemy regrouped to organize the storming of Kyiv. The occupiers plan to join the assault by the most capable units and subdivisions of the ramzan kadyrov Special Guards Regiment (Grozny), the 27th Detachment of the Kuzbass (Kemerovo), the 604th Vityaz Center (Moscow) of the Rosguard and the private military company Liga (formerly Wagner).
In the Polissya direction, the enemy concentrated in the settlements of Poliske, Kukhari, Borodyanka, Byshiv, Byshiv, Horenychi, Demydiv.
In the direction of settlement Byshiv the enemy was maneuvering with forces up to two BTGs from the 36th All-Army of the RF Armed Forces and is trying to move forward.
In the direction of settlement Tarasivshchyna, Rakivka the enemy from the 98th Airborne Division in cooperation with BTGr of 155 separate Marine Brigade after forcing the Irpin River near Rakivka launched an offensive, but suffered significant losses in manpower and equipment, lost part of the offensive potential and stopped.
In the Siversky direction, the enemy is conducting an offensive operation with the help of units from 2, 41 all-military armies of the RF Armed Forces and the 90th Tankr Division of the Central Military District in order to block Chernihiv and prepare for the attack on Sumy.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy forces of the 1st Tank Army of the RF Armed Forces (up to 12 BTGr), the 20th All-Military Army of the RF Armed Forces (up to 8 BTGr), the 6th All-Military Army (up to 2 BTGr) of the Western Military District, and the 14th Army Corps focuses on the directions of Kaniv, Novomoskovsk. Stopped and trying to resume the offensive on Severodonetsk by the 144th Motorized Rifle Division of the 20th All-Army of the Russian Armed Forces. Carries out regrouping and preparation for the storming of the city of Sumy.
When trying to master settlement Izyum the enemy suffered losses and retreated. The occupiers terrorized the city, shelling civilian homes and infrastructure.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy with forces of up to 7 BTGr 1, 2 Army Corps and 150 motorized infantry division of the 8th General Army continues offensive operations in the direction of the Dnieper and Zaporozhye in order to reach the administrative borders of Donetsk region.
In order to conduct offensive operations in the direction of Severodonetsk, the BTGr of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division is being moved. Attempts to break through the defense in the Volnovakha direction.
It is trying to break through the defense of Mariupol, but to no avail.
On the Tavriya direction the enemy by the forces of separate units of separate divisions of the 49th general army of the Armed Forces of the russian federation, 22 army corps, 20 motorized infantry divisions of the 8th general army of the Armed Forces of the russian federation and Airborne Troops in the following directions; to Voznesensk – up to 3 BTGr from the 49th General Army of the RF Armed Forces; in Zaporizhia – up to 4 BTGr of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division and 136 separate motorized infantry brigades of the 58th All-Military Army of the RF Armed Forces; Melitopol, Mariupol – up to 3 BTGr from the 19th Motorized Rifle Division of the 58th General Army. Carries out regrouping of troops for offensive operations.
In the South Buh operational area the enemy is stopped on approaches to Mykolayiv, carries out regrouping of troops for resumption of offensive.
In general, the moral and psychological state of the enemy is low. He is demoralized due to heavy losses in manpower and military equipment, in some areas it is deserting.
During the fighting near Kharkiv, the Chief of Staff, First Deputy Commander of the 41st General Army, Major General Vitaliy Gerasimov, was killed, and several senior officers of the Army Staff were killed and wounded.
