The 292nd day of the Russia-Ukraine War: official operational information by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on 12.12.2022.
The Russian army is concentrating its efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Zaporizhzhia directions. In other directions, the Russian army is trying to restrain the actions of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
During the day, Russian troops launched 6 rocket attacks, 4 of which hit the civilian infrastructure of the city of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk oblast, as well as shelled the city of Kherson with multiple rocket launchers.
- In the Volyn, Polissya, Siversk and Slobozhanskyi directions, the situation remains without significant changes, no signs of the formation of offensive groups of the Russian army have been detected. Certain units of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation continue to be located in the border areas with Ukraine. During the day, the Russian army carried out mortar and artillery shelling in the areas of Seredyna-Buda and Ryasne settlements of the Sumy oblast, as well as Strilecha, Starytsa, Ohirtseve, Hatyshche, Volohivka, Okhrimivka, Chuhunivka, Ambarne, Dvorichna and Kamianka of the Kharkiv oblast.
- In the direction of Kupyansk, the areas of the settlements of Kyslivka, Kotlyarivka, Tabaivka, Berestove in Kharkiv oblast and Stelmakhivka in Luhansk oblast came under fire.
- Terny, Yampolivka and Torske districts of Donetsk oblast were hit by fire in the Lyman direction.
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- In the Bakhmut direction, Russian troops fired tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of almost twenty settlements. In particular, these are Verkhnokamianske, Spirne, Bilohorivka, Vesele, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar and Druzhba in Donetsk oblast. Zalizne, New York, Berdychi, Avdiyivka, Opytne, Vodyane, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, and Maryinka of the Donetsk oblast came under fire in the Avdiivka district.
- In the Novopavlivka direction, the areas of Vuhledar, Bohoyavlenka, Novoukrainka and Prechystivka of the Donetsk oblast were shelled.
- In the Zaporizhzhia direction, Russian military inflicted fire damage on Vremivka in Donetsk oblast and Zelene Pole, Novopil, Novodarivka, Malynivka, Hulyaipole, Dorozhnyanka, Hulyaipilske, Charivne, Bilohiria, Mala Tokmachka and Orikhiv in the Zaporizhzhia oblast.
- In the Kherson direction, Russian soldiers shelled settlements in the Kherson region and the city of Kherson with barrel and rocket artillery, there were casualties among the civilian population, and civilian infrastructure was damaged.
Russian troops continue to loot civil infrastructure objects in the temporarily captured territory of the Kherson region. Thus, as of December 11 of the current year, the equipment of local agricultural enterprises was removed from the settlement of Rubanivka.
In Mizhvodny and Chornomorsky, which are in Crimea, Russian power intensified administrative and police and counter-intelligence measures.
The Russian army continues to suffer losses. There are more than 100 Russian servicemen with injuries of varying degrees of severity in the local hospital of Kreminnaya, Luhansk oblast.
With the aim of replenishing the losses in manpower and re-staffing the units of the 1st Army Corps, women are called up for mobilization. 28 women have already been drafted and sent for training by the Kalinin District Military Commissariat of the city of Donetsk.
During the current 24 hours, the Air Force of the Defense Forces of Ukraine made 4 strikes on areas where the Russian personnel, weapons and military equipment are concentrated.
Ukrainian rocket launchers and gunners hit 2 control points and 4 areas of concentration of personnel of Russian soldiers.
Source: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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