The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has released an operational update on the state of warfare as of 18.00 on May 25, 2022.
According to Ukraine’s General Staff operational report, Invaders are focused on the defeat of the Joint Forces and attempts to establish full control over the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The enemy tries to overcome the resistance of the units of the Joint Forces in the regions in order to create favorable conditions for the offensive. The enemy focused its main efforts on the Bakhmut direction. It is trying to develop success in the Lyman direction. In addition, occupiers continue to actively prepare for offensive operations in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia areas.
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Key points of the report:
- In the Volyn and Polissya directions, compared to the past, the situation is unchanged. At the end of May this year, practical actions of units of the Armed Forces of the republic of belarus are planned at the training grounds in Brest, Vitebsk, Grodno, Minsk and Mogilev regions.
- In the Sicerskyy direction, the enemy continues to cover the russian-Ukrainian border in the Bryansk and Kursk regions. In order to prevent the redeployment of Ukraine’s troops to other areas, the enemy is shelling civilian and military infrastructure in the border areas.
- In the Slobozhansky direction, the occupiers are carrying out systematic high-intensity fire in the areas where Ukrainian troops are concentrated. The aggressor's units fired on civilian infrastructure in the settlements of Krasnopillya in the Sumy region, as well as in Ternovo, Ruski Tyshky, Dovhenke and Nova Dmytrivka in the Kharkiv region.
- The enemy is trying to improve the tactical position of its units in the areas of Izyum and Slovyansk. It made attempts at assault and offensive operations in the districts of Dovhenke, Kharkiv region, and Bogorodychne, Donetsk region, had no success, and withdrew.
- In the Donetsk direction, occupiers inflicts artillery and air strikes in the Lyman and Komyshuvakha districts of the Donetsk region and Severodonetsk and Novozvanivka in the Luhansk region.
- The enemy attempted offensive and assault operations in the Sievierodonetsk and Bakhmut areas in the areas of the settlements of Berestov, Lypovo, and Nyrkovo;
- In the Avdiivka direction, occupiers carried out unsuccessful assaults in the areas of the settlements of Krasnohorivka, Kamyanka, Avdiivka and Pisky.
- The enemy carried out air strikes and artillery shelling in the Marinka, Mykilsky, Poltavka and Orikhov districts.
- In the South Buh direction, enemy units tried to improve their tactical position in the direction of Mykolayiv and ensure access to the administrative borders of the Kherson region.
- Occupiers fired on the positions of Ukraine’s troops and civilian infrastructure in the areas of Novooleksandrivka, Trudolyubivka, Novopavlivka, Blagodatny and Posad-Pokrovsky.
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