The Russian occupiers continue their offensive in the Avdiiv and Bakhmut directions and actively use aviation to support ground groups.

This was announced on Saturday, December 3, at the evening meeting of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The enemy concentrates efforts on restraining the actions of units of the Defense Forces and carries out engineering equipment of defensive lines and positions. 

During the day, the occupiers launched

2

rocket and

10

air strikes, as well as fired

3

rocket salvo fire systems at the positions of our troops and settlements along the contact line.

In particular, a civil infrastructure object in the city of Kramatorsk was hit by a missile.

There is still a threat of missile strikes on the objects of the energy system and critical infrastructure throughout the territory of Ukraine.

The situation at the front

In the Volyn and Poliske directions

, the situation has not changed significantly, and no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups have been detected.

Certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to perform tasks in the border areas with Ukraine.

In the Slobozhansk direction, the

enemy continues to hold his troops in the border areas of the Belgorod region.

Areas of settlements of Odnorobivka, Strelecha, Neskuchne, Ternova, Staritsa, Ohirtseve, Chernyakiv and Chugunivka of the Kharkiv region were shelled by artillery of various calibers.

The enemy is defending in the

Kupyansk and Lymansk directions .

He carried out shelling from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of Sinkivka, Tabaivka, Berestov and Vyshneve settlements in the Kharkiv region and Makiivka and Ploshanka in the Luhansk region.

In the Bakhmut and Avdiiv areas

, the enemy is concentrating its main efforts on conducting offensive actions, trying to improve its tactical position.

Areas of the settlements of Serebryanka, Bilogorivka, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Bila Gora, Kurdyumivka, Opytne, Avdiivka, Vodyane, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, and Novomykhailivka in Donetsk region were shelled by tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery. 

The enemy is defending

in the Novopavlovsk direction .

The areas of Velika Novosilka, Vugledar, Prechistivka and Zolota Niva of the Donetsk region were shelled with artillery. 

The enemy is also conducting defensive operations

in the Zaporozhye direction .

He carried out artillery shelling of the districts of more than ten settlements, which are close to the contact line, in particular, Orikhov of the Zaporizhzhia region.

In the Kherson direction, the

enemy is defending previously captured lines.

Fires from mortars, barrel and rocket artillery positions of our troops and liberated settlements of the Kherson region.

The shelling of the suburbs and the city of Kherson does not stop.

Losses of the enemy

The enemy continues to suffer losses.

In particular, on December 2, as a result of fire damage to the enemy's concentration area in the city of Starobilsk, Luhansk region, the enemy lost about

30

servicemen wounded and

14

killed. 

During December 2, in the Melitopol and Vasyliv districts of the Zaporizhia region, the occupiers lost more than

270

people wounded.

Information about the dead is being clarified.

During the current day, the aviation of the Defense Forces made

13

strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, as well as a strike on the position of the anti-aircraft missile complex of the occupiers.

Also, an enemy plane was shot down near the settlement of Pidgorodne, Donetsk region.

Information about its type is being clarified.

Units of missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine hit

2

control points, an ammunition warehouse and

2

areas of concentration of personnel and enemy anti-tank weapons.

It will be recalled that over the past day units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks by Russian invaders in the areas of the settlements of Chervonopivka in the Luhansk region and Soledar, Opytne, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka and Maryinka in the Donetsk region

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