The brave resistance of the Ukrainians against a Russian military invasion is on the one hundred twenty-sixth (126th) day.
As the result of a large-scale prisoner exchange, one hundred forty-four Ukrainian defenders were able to return home. Ninty five Azovstal defenders are among them.
As part of the exercises in the Volyn, Polissia regions, military commissariats from the republic of Belarus inspect the assigned composition as well as the possibility of mobilization within certain areas.
The Russian army continues to strengthen its presence on the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Siverskyi direction. The Russian aggressor also fired on civilian and military infrastructures in the Sumy region, near the settlements at Turya and Luhivka. Russia launched an air strike against the settlement of Uhroidy. In the Kharkiv direction, it fired from tanks and mortars at the urban areas in Kharkiv and Bazaliyivka, Shestakove, Zamulivka, Ruska Lozova, Pryshyb, Verkhniy Saltiv, Ivanivka.
Russian troops are able to regroup in the Slovyansk direction and hold previously occupied frontiers. Civilian areas of Dolyna, Mykilske, Hrushuvakha, Dovhenke and Bohorodychne were hit by Russian shelling. Husarivka was also the location of an air strike by the occupiers.
With the help of artillery the Russian army attempts to blockade the area of Lysychansk. It also attempts to take control over the section of highway Lysychansk-Bakhmut. Russia attacked civilian and military infrastructures in the areas surrounding the settlements Lysychansk and Verkhnokamianka and Sivers’k. Also, it launched an air strike against the Lysychansk Oil Refinery. The Russian reconnaissance and sabotage groups were stationed in the Verkhnyokamyanka area to aid the offensive. These were neutralized by Ukrainian soldiers.
Russia did not engage in active hostilities in the Kramatorsk direction. However, they fired artillery at the Tetianivka region from the Bakhmut direction. It launched an air strike in the vicinity of Vidrodzhennia. It attempted to improve the tactical situation near the settlement of Spirne through offensive actions but was unsuccessful and withdrew. Ukrainian soldiers defeated the enemy’s reconnaissance and sabotage group near Berestove.
Russian soldiers used mortars, barrel, and jet artillery to attack Ukrainian positions in the Avdiyivka, Novopavliv, Zaporizhia and Kurakhiv directions, near the settlements of Avdiyivka, Vesele, Pavlivka and Bilohirya. The Russian occupiers also launched airstrikes against civilian infrastructure in the vicinity of Orikhove, Scherbaky directions.
The Russian occupying power continues to carry out measures of the administrative-police regime on the illegally seized territory of Ukraine. Invaders are collecting personal information from local residents, mandatory certification and a ban on the entry of the population to the territory under control by the Ukrainian authorities.
