Nearly 240 clashes on the front line, fiercest fighting in Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka directions

Ukraine's General Staff has reported 238 combat clashes along the front line over the past 24 hours. The hottest sectors were the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka directions, where enemy forces attempted to advance nearly 60 times in total — 32 attacks near Pokrovsk and 26 near Kostiantynivka.

Attacks repelled in northern and southern sectors

In the Northern Sloboda and Kursk directions, Ukrainian defenders stopped three enemy assault attempts. Russian forces also carried out three airstrikes, dropping six aerial bombs, and conducted 53 strikes on Ukrainian troop positions and settlements, including two using multiple rocket launch systems.

In the Southern Sloboda direction, Ukrainian units repelled eight attacks as occupying forces tried to advance toward Lyman, Izbytske, Okhrimivka and the Starytsia area. In the Kupiansk direction, 15 offensive actions were recorded toward Radkivka and Hlushkivka, while in the Lyman direction six attacks near Lyman, Novoserhiivka, Drobysheve and Novoselivka were repelled.

Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and other directions

In the Sloviansk direction, the enemy carried out 15 assault actions toward Ozerne, Orikhuvatka, Rai-Oleksandrivka and near Kryva Luka and Ryznykivka. In the Kramatorsk direction, two offensive actions took place near Nykyforivka and Minkivka.

In the Oleksandrivka direction, three attacks were recorded near Nove Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizke and Rybne, while in the Huliaipole direction occupying forces attacked 16 times, attempting to advance toward Verkhnia Tersa, Charivne, Vozdvyzhivka, Rivne, Dolynka and the Bilohiria area. In the Orikhiv direction, defenders stopped three attempts to advance near Plavni, Mala Tokmachka and Novoandriivka.

No active offensive actions were recorded in the Prydniprovske direction, and no signs of enemy assault groupings were detected in the Volyn and Polissia directions.