Russia – Ukraine war latest updates from the General Staff of Ukraine as of August 28, 2024.
917 day of the russian large-scale invasion and 3,834 day of the russia’s war against Ukraine begins.
Operational information as of 8:00 a.m. August 28, 2024 regarding the Russian invasion.
During the past day, 184 combat clashes were recorded. The hottest situation was in the Pokrovsky direction, the enemy was also active in the Kupyansk, Toretsk, and Kurakhivsk directions.
According to detailed information, yesterday the Russian aggressor struck the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements with 12 missiles and 86 airstrikes, dropping 110 anti-aircraft missiles. In addition, russians carried out more than 4,300 attacks, 120 of them from rocket salvo systems.
The enemy carried out airstrikes in the areas of the settlements of Esman, Vorozhba, Vilna Sloboda, Atynske, Gorile, Bezsalivka, Glukhiv, Mykhailivske, Uhroidy, Shalygine, Yampil, Yastrubyne, Iskrikivshchyna, Bilopylla, Bachivsk, Budivelne of the Sumy region; Kozacha Lopan, Zybyne, Senkove, Kupyansk-Vuzlovy, Petropavlivka, Synkivka of the Kharkiv region; Mayorsk, Hryhorivka, Chasiv Yar, Oleksandropil, Grodivka, Selidove, Vodyane, Shakhtarske, Ugledar of the Donetsk region; Sadov, Tyaginka, Kherson region.
Yesterday, the aviation and missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces made five strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and anti-aircraft defenses of the enemy. In addition, the artillery system, the ground control station of the UAV and another important object were hit.
In the Kharkiv direction, there were nine clashes near Hlyboky, Staritsa, Vovchansk and Lyptsi.
25 battles were fought in the Kupyansk direction. The defense forces repelled enemy assaults near Synkivka, Stepova Novoselivka, Kolisnikivka, and Stelmakhivka.
In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked 16 times near Druzhelyubivka, Novosadovo, Nevsky, and Terni.
In the Siverskyi direction, the Russians advanced four times near Verkhnokamyanskyi, Vyimka, and Ivano-Daryivka.
There were 17 combat clashes in the Kramatorsk direction. Ukrainian defenders repelled assaults by Russian invaders near Hryhorivka, Andriivka, Klishchiivka, and Ivanivskyi.
23 battles were fought in the Toretsk direction, in particular, near Nelipivka, Toretsk and New York.
In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders repelled 55 enemy assaults in the areas of the settlements of Sukha Balka, Vozdvizhenka, Novooleksandrivka, Zelene Pole, Myrolyubivka, Novogrodivka, Mykhailivka, Grodivka, Myronivka, and Selidove. The greatest concentration of attacks was near Novogrodivka.
In the Kurakhivka direction, the Defense Forces stopped 22 enemy attacks near Karlivka, Georgiivka, Mykhailivka, Krasnohorivka, Vodiany, Staromykhailivka, and Kostyantynivka.
In the direction of Vremivsk, the Russian invaders advanced seven times in the direction of Vodyanyi, Ugledar, Prechistivka and Rozdolny. They had no success.
Four skirmishes took place in the Orihiv direction near Malaya Tokmachka and Robotyne.
In the Dnieper direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled two enemy attacks.
In the Gulyaipil direction, the situation has not changed much.
No signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn and Poliske directions.
On the border with the Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the enemy maintains a military presence, carries out mortar and artillery attacks on populated areas from the territory of the Russian Federation.
At the same time, our soldiers continue to actively inflict significant losses in manpower and equipment on the occupying forces, exhausting the enemy along the entire line of battle.
In general, the Russian invaders lost 1,090 servicemen during the last day. Ukrainian soldiers also destroyed five tanks, 14 armored combat vehicles, 27 artillery systems, one anti-aircraft missile system, one anti-aircraft vehicle, one aircraft, 94 operational-tactical unmanned aerial vehicles, six cruise missiles, 41 vehicles and six units of special equipment of the occupiers.
