The occupiers focused their main efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Marin directions.

Units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled more than 60 enemy attacks against them.

This is reported by the General Staff.

Over the past day, the enemy launched 5 missile and 25 air strikes, launched 34 attacks from rocket salvo systems.

In the Volyn, Poliske, Siversk and Slobozhansk directions,

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

In the Lyman direction,

during the day, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the areas of Stelmakhivka and Vyimka.

Areas of Kupyansk, Kolodyazne, Dvorichna, Zapadne, Petropavlivka and Kislivka settlements of the Kharkiv region were hit by artillery fire;

Stelmakhivka, Nevske, Kuzmyne, Bilogorivka - Luhansk region, as well as Kolodyazi, Spirne and Siversk regions of Donetsk region.

In the direction of Bakhmut,

the enemy continues its assault on Bakhmut.

In the course of the enemy's assault actions, our soldiers repelled 28 enemy attacks.

At the same time, during the day, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the area of ​​Orihovo-Vasylivka.

He shelled the settlements of Orihovo-Vasylivka, Bakhmut, Ivanivske, Chasiv Yar, Novomarkove and Oleksandro-Shultyne of the Donetsk region.

In the Avdiyiv and Marinka directions,

the enemy carried out offensive actions in the direction of the settlements of Novokalynove, Stepove, Avdiivka, Severna, Pervomaiske, Marinka of the Donetsk region, without success.

Shelled, in particular, Novokalynovka, Stepove, Avdiivka, Severne, Vodiane, Pervomaiske, Karlivka, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Pobyeda, and Novomykhailivka in the Donetsk region.

In the direction of Shakhtar,

during the day, the enemy shelled the areas of Vugledar, Prechistivka, and Velika Novosilka.

The enemy is defending in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions

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Shelled more than 20 districts of settlements, including Malynivka, Gulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Novodanilivka, Novoandriivka, Staroukrainka, Charivne of the Zaporizhia region;

Mykhailivka, Novooleksandrivka, Novoberyslav, Tomarine, Rozlyv of the Kherson region and the city of Kherson.

Last day, the Ukrainian aviation

on the areas where the occupiers were concentrated, and the air defense units of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a Russian Su-24M bomber.

Also hit were 3 areas where the enemy's manpower, weapons and military equipment were concentrated, an electronic warfare station, an ammunition warehouse, and 2 enemy fuel and lubricant warehouses.

It will be recalled that the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksiy Reznikov, said that preparations for the counteroffensive, which should begin in April-May, are now underway.

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