The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has released an operational update on the state of warfare as of 06.00 on May 24, 2022.
According to Ukraine’s General Staff operational report, sixteen enemy attacks have been repulsed in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, eight tanks, twenty-two units of armored combat vehicles and one enemy vehicle have been destroyed over the past 24hrs.
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Key points of the report:
- The threat of missile and air strikes on the objects of our State from the territory of the Republic of Belarus is growing. The aggressor moved the division of OTRK "Iskander-M" to the Brest region at a distance of up to 50 kilometers from the state border of Ukraine.
- In the Kryvyi Rih and Mykolayiv directions, the enemy does not stop artillery shelling of our troops' positions.
- In the Sloviansk direction, enemy units are preparing to resume the offensive. The aggressor, to support the offensive, deployed additional units of artillery in the southern part of the city of Izyum.
- In the Donetsk direction, the enemy is focused on conducting an offensive operation to encircle the cities of Lysychansk and Severodonetsk, with subsequent access to the administrative border of Luhansk region.
- In the Severodonetsk direction, the enemy, with the support of artillery, carried out assault operations in the directions of Toshkivka and Ustynivka.
- In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy improved its tactical position in the area of Vasylivka.
- In the Avdiivka, Kurakhivka and Novopavlovsk directions, the enemy fired at our units with the use of artillery and aircraft.
The enemy continues to use terror tactics against the Ukrainian civilian population in the occupied territories, and the socio-economic situation in southern and eastern Ukraine continues to deteriorate.
Aviation units of the Air Force and Air Defense destroyed six UAVs, an enemy cruise missile and thirty armored combat vehicles.
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