The one hundred eighty-third (183) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues.
The situation has not undergone significant changes in the Volyn and Polissya directions. The threat of the enemy launching missiles and air strikes from the territory of the Republic of Belarus remains.
In the Siversky region, the enemy continues to hold separate units of the armed forces of the Russian federation in the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions in order to demonstrate the presence and constrain the actions of units of the Defense Forces.
The enemy shelled civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Hai, Zalizniy Mist, and Hirsk in the Chernihiv oblast and Bachivsk, Vilna Sloboda, and Stukalivka in the Sumy oblast. Conducted aerial reconnaissance of the border regions of the UAVs.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy shelled the areas of Odnorobivka, Tsupivka, Prudyanka, Bazaliivka, Tsyrkuny, Petrivka, Velyki Prokhody, Pytomnyk, Ivanivka, Korobochkyne, Slobozhanske and Chepil settlements from tanks, barrel and rocket artillery. The districts of Pytomnyk, Pryshyb, and Zalyman were hit by enemy aircraft.
The enemy made an unsuccessful offensive attempt near Petrivka, suffered losses, and retreated. Supports the high intensity of UAV reconnaissance.
In the Slovyansk direction, the enemy used tanks, barrel artillery, and MLRS for shelling in the vicinity of Velyka Komyshuvakha, Krasnopilla, Nova Dmytrivka, Dolyna, and Dibrivne.
Defense forces of Ukraine repelled an attempted attack by enemy units near Dolyna and Dmytrivka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the areas of Spirne, Zvanivka, Siversk, and Pryshyb were attacked by the enemy. The enemy made an attempt to improve the tactical position near Stariy Karavan, but was unsuccessful and retreated.
In the direction of Bakhmut, the enemy continued shelling the territories near Bakhmut, Veselaya Dolyna, Zaytseve, and Kodema. Areas of the settlements of Soledar, Zaitseve, Kodema, and Yakovlivka were hit by enemy aircraft.
The occupiers tried to advance near Kodema and Bakhmutsky by offensive and assault actions, suffered losses, and retreated.
In the Avdiyivka direction, the enemy, with airstrikes, tank fire, barrel artillery, and rocket salvo fire systems, tried to push back units of our troops, to hit important objects of military and civilian infrastructure in the areas of Avdiyivka, Maryinka, Krasnohorivka, Nevelske, Pervomaiske, Vodyane, Zalizne, and Alexandropol.
The enemy tried to break through the defenses of our troops in the area of Pervomaiske settlement, received a strong repulse, and retreated.
In the direction of Novopavlivka, shelling was recorded near Pavlivka, Elizavetivka and Novomykhailivka. The occupiers also carried out airstrikes near Volodymyrivka, Vuhledar and Pavlivka.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy shelled the positions of our troops near Hulyaipilske, Orihiv, Zaliznychne, Shevchenko, and Olhivske. Areas of the settlements of Orihiv, Hulyaipilske, Shcherbaky, and Mali Shcherbaky were hit by air strikes.
In the South Buh direction, the enemy concentrated its efforts on holding the occupied positions and hitting our units with fire. Continued shelling from the barrel, rocket artillery, and tanks along the contact line. It carried out an airstrike near Bila Krynytsia.
It tried to carry out combat reconnaissance in the area of the settlement of Blahodatne, suffered losses, and withdrew. The enemy’s attempted offensive in the Tavriysky district was choked under the fire of our soldiers and the invaders retreated.
The operational update as of 06.00 pm (CET), on August 25, 2022
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy fired from tanks, combat vehicles, barrel and rocket artillery along the contact line.
In the Slovyansk direction, the areas of the settlements of Velyka Komyshuvakha, Nova Dmytrivka and Brazhkivka came under the influence of barrel and jet artillery fire. The enemy carried out assaults in the direction of Pasika – Dolyna, had no success, retreated.
In the Kramatorsk direction, shelling from tanks, barrel artillery and MLRS was recorded near Spirne, Ivano-Daryivka, Zvanivka, Serebryanka and Siversk.
In the direction of Bakhmut, the areas of the settlements of Bakhmut, Soledar, Vesela Dolyna, Mayorsk, Shumy, Zaytseve, Bilohorivka, Kodema and Yakovlivka were attacked by the enemy. The enemy used aircraft for strikes near Soledar and Zaitseve. It unsuccessfully tried to lead an offensive in the direction of Travneve – Kodema.
In the Avdiyivkja direction, the enemy inflicted fire damage on the Pokrovsk, Netaylove, Pervomaiske, Orlivka, Vodyane, Novobakhmutivka, Shumy, and New York districts. Enemy aircraft operated near Maryinka, Krasnohorivka, and Nevelsky. The enemy tried to launch an offensive in the direction of Piska – Pervomaiske, but was unsuccessful and retreated.
In the direction of Novopavlivka, the enemy fired from tanks and artillery of various types near Pavlivka, Yelyzavetivka, Kostyantynivka, Vuhledar, Volodymyrivka, Novomykhailivka, Novoukrainka, and Velyka Novosilka. The enemy also used aviation near Volodymyrivka, Vugledar and Pavlivka to carry out strikes.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy fired at the positions of our troops in the areas of Komyshuvakha, Hulyaipilske, Chervone, Charivne, Vremivka, Orihiv, Shcherbaky, Zaliznychne, Novosilka, Burlatske, Vilne Pole, Shevchenko and Novodanylivka. It carried out airstrikes near Orikhiv, Hulyaipilske and Shcherbaky.
In the South Buh direction, the occupiers fired at our positions and civilian infrastructure from tanks, barrel and rocket artillery along the line of combat engagement. An airstrike was carried out in the area of the settlement of Bila Krynytsia.
The enemy’s naval group continues to carry out the task of blocking civilian shipping and destroying objects deep in the territory of Ukraine.