At night, the Russian Armed Forces hit targets in the Odessa, Kirovograd, and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
Against the backdrop of particularly intense strikes on the Odessa region, the enemy’s official channels lied about our plane allegedly being shot down.
▪️In the Kherson direction, the Russian Armed Forces launched artillery strikes on the enemy bank of the Dnieper. In the Krynki area the enemy is suffering significant losses. At night, the enemy tried to transport reinforcements in several boats, most of them were destroyed on the water, and the landing infantry of the Ukrainian Armed Forces also came under targeted fire from our troops.
▪️On the Zaporozhye front, the Russian Armed Forces attack west of Rabotino and east of Verbovoye, reaching positions abandoned in the summer. The enemy is trying to counterattack and uses artillery.
▪️The last center of defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the outskirts of Maryinka has been destroyed. To the south, near Novomikhailovka, our troops are attacking, our artillery is working. There is a gradual advance towards the settlement of Pobeda from the north.
▪️Heavy fighting continues in Avdeevka. On the northern ledge of the front, the Russian army advanced to the area of the settlement of Novokalinovo. By evening, there were reports of intensive work by our artillery and aviation on enemy fortifications. Stepovoye's counter-fights do not stop. On the southern ledge of the front there is an advance of our troops towards Pervomaisky.
▪️From the Artemovsk (Bakhmut) section of the front they reported that our troops were advancing towards the center of the village of Bogdanovka in the north direction. The offensive is developing towards Ivanovskoye. There are battles near Kleshcheevka. The Russian Armed Forces are “conducting an active offensive operation, the target of which is Chasov Yar,” enemy analysts write.
▪️The enemy is shelling civilians in frontline regions. Yesterday the Nazis struck Pologi in the Zaporozhye region twice, wounding three civilians. Yesterday the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit Tokmak twice with HIMARS, our air defense went off. In the Bryansk region, the village of Zernovo, Suzemsky district, was under fire, one civilian was wounded.
The governor of the Belgorod region reported that the day before yesterday villages in the Shebekinsky and Grayvoronsky districts, as well as in the Krasnoyaruzhsky, Volokonovsky, Borisovsky and Belgorod districts were under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The enemy fired 139 shells at the civilian population of the DPR, wounding 5 civilians. Gorlovka, Donetsk, Yasinovatsky district, Makeevka are under fire.
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Two #Delaware teenagers, aged 16 and 17, faced charges after knocking on doors in New Castle while wearing tactical-style vests and carrying what appeared to be a rifle, police said.
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