The Russian occupiers are trying to advance in four directions: Lymansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdiivsky and Zaporizhzhya.

In other directions, the enemy is trying to restrain the actions of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.

This is stated in the notification of the General Staff of the Armed Forces dated December 12. 

During the day, the occupiers launched 6 rocket attacks, 4 of which hit the civilian infrastructure of the city of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, as well as shelled the city of Kherson with multiple rocket launchers.

  • In the Volyn, Poliske, Siversk and Slobozhansk directions, the situation remains without significant changes, no signs of the formation of offensive groups of the enemy 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 enemy carried out mortar and artillery shelling in the areas of Seredyna-Buda and Ryasne settlements of Sumy region, as well as Strelecha, Staritsa, Ohirtseve, Gatyshche, Volokhivka, Okhrimivka, Chugunivka, Ambarne, Dvorichna and Kamianka of Kharkiv region.

  • In the direction of Kupyansk, the areas of Kislivka, Kotlyarivka, Tabaivka, Berestovka in Kharkiv region and Stelmakhivka in Luhansk region were hit by shelling.

  • Terniv, Yampolivka and Torsky districts of Donetsk region were hit by fire in the Lyman direction.

  • In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy shelled almost twenty settlements with tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery.

    In particular, these are Verkhnokamianske, Spirne, Bilogorivka, Vesele, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar and Druzhba in Donetsk region.

  • Zalizne, New York, Berdychi, Avdiyivka, Opytne, Vodyane, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, and Maryinka of the Donetsk region were shelled in the Avdiyiv direction.

  • In the direction of Novopavlivsk, the areas of Vugledar, Bogoyavlenka, Novoukrainka and Prechistivka of the Donetsk region were shelled.

  • In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy inflicted fire damage on Vremivka in Donetsk region and Zeleny Pol, Novopol, Novodarivka, Malynivka, Gulyaipol, Dorozhniantka, Gulyaipilskiy, Charivnoy, Biloghiri, Malya Tokmachka and Orikhov in the Zaporizhia region.

  • In the Kherson direction, the enemy 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.

"The Russian occupiers continue to loot civil infrastructure objects in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region. For example, as of December 11 of the current year, the equipment of local agricultural enterprises was removed from the village of Rubanivka. In Mizhvodny and Chornomorsky, which are in Crimea, the Russian occupation authorities activated administrative-police and counter-intelligence measures," the General Staff reported. 

The Russians continue to suffer losses.

There are more than 100 enemy servicemen with injuries of varying degrees of severity in the local hospital of Kreminnaya, Luhansk region.

Russia's war against Ukraine 

On February 24, Russia launched a full-scale offensive on the territory of Ukraine.

The occupiers planned to capture Kyiv "in three days" and establish their puppet regime here. 

Since February, the occupiers have been shelling Ukraine with missiles, destroying civilian infrastructure.

Since October 10, Russia has been massively shelling power system facilities.

The occupiers want to leave Ukrainians without electricity and heating during the cold winter to force the authorities to capitulate. 

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