As the Ukraine’s General Staff operational update regarding the russian invasion as of 06.00, on December 13, 2022 states, the occupiers who arrive in the temporarily occupied settlements settle in the abandoned and forcibly "vacated" by the local residents. In addition, on December 10-11, the withdrawal of occupiers from the districts of settlements of Novomykolaivka and Mykhailivka of the Kherson oblast was noticed.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during the past day, the Air Force of the Defense Forces carried out 5 strikes on areas where the enemy's personnel, weapons and military equipment are concentrated.
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Over the past 24 hours, units of missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine hit 2 control points and 6 areas of concentration of personnel of the russian occupiers and a fuel and oil warehouse.
Key points of the report:
- In the Volyn, Polissya, Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions, the situation remains without significant changes, no signs of the formation of offensive groups of the enemy have been detected.
- Over the past day, the enemy carried out mortar and artillery shelling of the areas of settlements: Seredyna-Buda and Ryasne of the Sumy oblast, as well as Strelecha, Staritsa, Ohirtseve, Hatyshche, Volohivka, Okhrimivka, Chuhunivka, Ambarne, Dvorichna, Kamianka of the Kharkiv oblast.
- In the Kupyansk direction, the areas of the settlements: Kislivka, Kotlyarivka, Tabaivka, Berestov of the Kharkiv region were shelled by tanks and the entire spectrum of artillery; Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka, Novoehorivka, Makiivka, Luhansk oblast.
- In the Lyman direction, the enemy shelled the Terny, Yampolivka, Torske districts of the Donetsk oblast and Bilohorivka of the Luhansk oblast with tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery.
- In the direction of Bakhmut, the enemy fired tanks and artillery of various types in the areas of almost twelve settlements, in particular: Verkhnyokamianske, Vyimka, Spirne, Bilohorivka, Vesele, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Pidhorodne, Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar, Klishchiivka, Kurdyumivka, Druzhba of the Donetsk oblast.
- In the Avdiivka direction, the enemy shelled the areas of almost twenty settlements with tanks, mortars, and rocket artillery, including: Zalizne, New York, Krasnohorivka, Berdychi, Vesele, Avdiivka, Opytne, Vodyane, Pervomaiske, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, and Maryinka of the the Donetsk oblast.
- In the direction of Novopavlivjka, the enemy shelled the areas of Vuhledar, Bohoyavlenka, Novoukrayinka, Prechystivka, and Zolota Nyva settlements in the Donetsk oblast from artillery of various types.
- In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy fired tanks and the entire range of artillery at the settlements of Vremivka of the Donetsk oblast and Zelene Pole, Novopil, Novodarivka, Malynivka, Hulyaipole, Dorozhnianka, Hulyaipilske, Charivne, Bilohirya, Mala Tokmachka, Orihiv, Mali Shcherbaki, Kamianske and Plavni of the Zaporizhzhia oblast.
- In the Kherson direction, the enemy carried out mortar and artillery attacks on the settlements of the Kherson oblast bordering the contact line, Antonivka, Chornobayivka and the city of Kherson were the most affected.
According to Ukraine’s General Staff operational report, russian occupiers continue to carry out full-scale armed aggression against our country, they do not stop striking civilian infrastructure objects and civilian homes on the territory of Ukraine, violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of warfare.
The enemy continues to focus its efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Zaporizhzhia directions. In other directions, the enemy is trying to restrain the actions of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, shelling the positions of our troops and civilian objects along the entire line of contact, carrying out engineering equipment of defensive lines and positions.
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka, Novoehorivka, Makiivka, Chervonpopivka, and Bilohorivka of the Luhansk oblast and Verkhnyokamianske, Soledar, Yakovlivka, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Kurdyumivka, Mayorsk, Avdiivka, and Maryinka Donetsk oblast.
During the day, the enemy launched 7 missile strikes, 5 of which hit the civilian infrastructure of the city of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk oblast, and also carried out 79 attacks from rocket salvo systems, in particular on the city of Kherson. There are civilian casualties.
There remains the threat of the enemy launching air and missile strikes on civilian infrastructure throughout Ukraine.
At the same time, russian occupiers continue to use the infrastructure of medical and sanatorium resorts in the temporarily occupied and occupied territories of Ukraine to provide qualified medical care to their wounded servicemen. So, in the city of Luhansk, one of the buildings of the occupier's maternity hospital was converted into a military hospital. And in the city of Melitopol, the premises of a children's sanatorium are used as a military hospital. Medical personnel from the russian federation are involved in providing medical assistance.
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