The 306th day of the Russia-Ukraine War: official operational information by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on 26.12.2022.
During the day, the Russian army carried out 19 MLRS attacks from multiple rocket systems. The threat of Russian air and missile strikes remains on the entire territory of Ukraine.
Russian troops continue to focus their efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Lyman directions, in the Kupyansk, Avdiivka, and Zaporizhzhia directions – they are trying to improve the tactical position. The Russian army is defending in the Novopavlivsk and Kherson directions.
- In the Volyn, Polissya, Siversk, and Slobozhanskyi directions, the situation has not changed significantly, and no signs of the formation of Russian offensive groups have been detected.
- In the Slobozhansk direction, the districts of Starytsa, Ohirtseve, Vovchansk, and Ridkodub of Kharkiv oblast were hit by artillery fire.
- In the Kupyansk and Lyman directions, the Russian army inflicted fire damage in the areas of more than 20 settlements. Among them are Novomlynsk, Dvorichna, Zapadne, Tabaivka and Berestove in Kharkiv oblast; Ploshchanka and Dibrova in Luhansk oblast and Torske in Donetsk oblast.
- In the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions, Russian military shelled the areas of more than 30 settlements. In particular, these are Berestove, Bilohorivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, New York, Avdiivka, Vesele, Nevelske, Marinka and Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk oblast.
- In the Novopavlivsk direction, Prechystivka, Velyka Novosilka and Vremivka in Donetsk oblast came under fire from Russian soldiers.
- In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the Russian army shelled more than 15 settlements with tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery. Among them are Novopil in the Donetsk oblast and Olhivske, Malynivka, Dorozhnyanka, Charivne, Bilohirya, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanilivka, Novoandriivka and Mali Shcherbaky in Zaporizhzhia oblast.
- In the Kherson direction, the Russian army continues artillery shelling of populated areas along the right bank of the Dnipro River. In particular, the civilian infrastructure of Novooleksandrivka, Havrylivka, Respublikanets, Novokair, Tomaryne, Tyahynka, Mykilske, Prydniprovske, Inzhenerne, Antonivka and Kherson was affected.
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On December 24, the Defense Forces of Ukraine struck the area where Russian manpower was concentrated near the Polovynkyno Starobilsk district of the Luhansk oblast. Russian troops lost up to 150 soldiers dead and wounded.
On December 25, in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson oblast, Russian soldiers lost up to 50 servicemen killed and up to 100 wounded. About 5 units of military equipment of various types were also destroyed.
The Russian army continues to use the network of civilian healthcare facilities in the temporarily occupied territory to treat wounded servicemen of Russian forces and mercenaries of private military companies. Thus, in the village of Bilovodsk, Starobilsk district, Luhansk oblast, up to 300 wounded representatives of the “Wagner” PMC are being treated. In addition, in Pervomaisk, on the territory of the so-called “military hospital”, deployed on the basis of a multidisciplinary lyceum, up to 300 Russian soldiers who were injured in the area of the city of Bakhmut are also being treated.
In the settlement of Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia region, Russian soldiers intensified administrative and police measures. Military personnel, together with local collaborators, search for patriotic Ukrainian citizens, check personal laptops and phones, and search residences.
During the day, the aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine struck the area of concentration of the Russian army, and units of missile forces and artillery hit 4 control points and 6 areas of concentration of Russian manpower.
Source: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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