Ukrainian General Staff: Ukrainian Army repelled attacks in Soledar and Bahmut area
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in its morning report, stated, among other things, that the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to repel enemy attacks in the area of 13 settlements from Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including Soledar and Bahmut area.
The enemy is conducting offensive operations in Bahmut and other directions, "concentrating its efforts on the capture of the Donetsk region within the administrative border," "without success," the report said.
The General Staff also emphasised that on the last day, the enemy launched 8 rockets and 31 airstrikes. Several cities suffered from Russian bombing.
"The enemy carried out 63 attacks from multiple missile launch systems, including on the civilian infrastructure of the cities of Kharkiv, Kherson, Kramatorsk in the Donetsk regions and Ocheakov in the Nikolaev region. There are casualties among the civilian population. Enemy threat. Air and missile strikes on critical infrastructure remain throughout Ukraine," the General Staff added.
The day before, Ukrainian journalist Iurii Butusov claimed that by Monday evening the situation in Soledar had become threatening for the Ukrainian army. According to him, Russian forces have reached a position from which to fire on the highway that connects this city and its garrison to the Ukrainian rear.
"It is not a complete encirclement, but normal deliveries along the route are impossible, this is critical for defence," Butusov said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in an evening address to citizens, said that Ukraine was able to gain "extensions and additional forces" thanks to the resistance of the participants in Soledar's defence. The Russian military, he said, "has now concentrated its greatest efforts on Soledar."
Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokeswoman Anna Maliar said Monday that the enemy had regrouped, deployed "additional assault units, changed tactics" and "launched a heavy attack" on Soledar.
