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Ukraine’s General Staff Operational Report: Shahed-136 Attack Drones Used to Hit Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia, russia's Prisoners Already in Hospitals

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Photo credit: the General Staff of Ukaine
Photo credit: the General Staff of Ukaine

The two hundred-twenty-seventh day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues. Ukraine’s troops continue to eliminate occupiers striking their strongholds, command posts and military facilities

Over the last 24 hours the occupiers conducted 7x missile attacks and 12x air strikes, and carried out about 80 MLRS attacks.

Russian attacks and indiscriminate shelling caused casualties among civilian population and damage to the infrastructure in more than 20 settlements, including: Slavgorod, Bilovody, Vuhledar, Ridkodub, Hulyaipils’ke, Novoandriivka, Zaporizhzhia, and Mykolaiv.

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Ukraine’s General Staff Operational Report: Shahed-136 Attack Drones Used to Hit Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia, russia's Prisoners Already in Hospitals, Defense Express, war in Ukraine, Russian-Ukrainian war
Captured russia's KamAZ / Photo credit: Ukraine Weapons Tracker

The enemy employed 7x Iran-made "Shahed-136" attack drones against Ukrainian cities over the last 24 hours. 3x of them were shot down, and 4x reached the cities of Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv.

The enemy opened fired on other axes:

Siverskyi axis: from mortars and barrel artillery in the areas of the settlements of Bleshnya, Gai and Senkivka of the Chernihiv Oblast and Starykovo of the Sumy Oblast;

Ukraine’s General Staff Operational Report: Shahed-136 Attack Drones Used to Hit Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia, russia's Prisoners Already in Hospitals, Defense Express, war in Ukraine, Russian-Ukrainian war
Photo credit: the General Staff of Ukaine

Slobozhansk axis: from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of 18 settlements, including Hlyboke, Udy, Ohirtseve, Strelecha, Kolodyazne, Dvorichne, Neskuchne;

Kramatorsk axis: from artillery of various types, in the areas of the settlements of Spirne, Bilogorivka, Verkhnokamianske, Rozdolivka, Serebryanka, Hryhorivka, Dronivka, Vesele;

Ukraine’s General Staff Operational Report: Shahed-136 Attack Drones Used to Hit Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia, russia's Prisoners Already in Hospitals, Defense Express, war in Ukraine, Russian-Ukrainian war
Photo credit: the General Staff of Ukaine

Bakhmut axis: the enemy shelled the areas of Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Ivangrad, Opytne, Mayorsk, New York, Viimka, Rozdolivka, Vesele and Odradivka settlements;

Avdiivskyi axis: Avdiivka, Krasnohorivka, Pervomaiske and Novomykhailivka were affected by fire.

In the temporarily captured territories of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast, the enemy is trying to intensify measures to discredit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Special correspondents of the Russian mass media are additionally involved in creating fake content.

Areas of more than 27 settlements near the contact line were shelled by tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery on the Pivdennyi Buh axis.

The enemy actively uses UAVs of various types to conduct reconnaissance and carry out strikes. Last day, our defenders shot down eight UAVs on different axes: five of the Orlan-10 type and three of the Shahed-136 type.

Units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Vyimka, Bakhmutske, Krasna Gora, Bakhmut, Mayorsk, Ozeryanivka, Zaytseve, Odradivka, Andriivka, Pervomaiske, Krasnohorivka, Vesele, Kamianka, Pobyeda, Nevelske, Novomykhailivka, and Ternovy Pody.

Ukraine’s General Staff Operational Report: Shahed-136 Attack Drones Used to Hit Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia, russia's Prisoners Already in Hospitals, Defense Express, war in Ukraine, Russian-Ukrainian war
russia's Tigr-M IMV being towed by a tracktor / Photo credit: Ukraine Weapons Tracker

In the Luhansk Oblast, about three hundred wounded prisoners who agreed to fight in Ukraine were sent to the local hospital in Novosvitlivka.

Aviation of the Defense Forces carried out 30 strikes during the past 24 hours. It has been confirmed that 24 places of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 6 enemy anti-aircraft missile systems, have been destroyed. In addition, air defense units shot down two enemy helicopters.

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