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Russia – Ukraine war updates as of July 4, 2023

Russia - Ukraine war updates as of July 4, 2023

Russia – Ukraine war operational update of the General Staff of Ukraine for the last 24 hours of Russia – Ukraine war as of 6:00 a.m., July 4, 2023.

496 day of the russian large-scale invasion begins.

The Defense Forces of Ukraine continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Bakhmut, Melitopol and Berdyansk directions, are entrenched at the reached boundaries, inflict artillery fire on identified enemy targets, and carry out counter-battery countermeasures. The enemy is fiercely resisting, constantly moving units and troops. The russian occupiers actively use their reserves.

At the same time, in the direction of Bakhmut, Ukrainian troops are conducting offensive actions – north and south of the city of Bakhmut, they continue to put pressure on the enemy, knocking them out of previously captured positions. They have partial success, they are fixed at the achieved milestones. The enemy puts up a furious resistance and suffers huge losses. Heavy fighting is going on here.

Tonight, the russian Federation struck another blow with the Iranian Shahed drones. The information will be published after clarifying the results of combat work.

During the past day, the russian occupiers used 3 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the S-300 air defense system and 22 Iranian Shahed drones against civilian infrastructure facilities in the Sumy, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.

As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, Ukrainian defenders destroyed 16 attack Shahed drones.

In total, the enemy carried out 56 airstrikes and launched 77 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas. Unfortunately, there are deaths and injuries among the civilian population and destruction and damage to civilian infrastructure, high-rise buildings and private residential buildings.

The probability of launching missile and air strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine remains very high.

The enemy is concentrating its main efforts on the Lymansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdiyivskyi, and Marinsky directions, heavy battles are ongoing. Over 40 combat clashes took place during the day.

In the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation has not changed significantly.

In the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions, the enemy carried out airstrikes on the city of Sumy and in the Katerynivka district of the Sumy region. He carried out mortar and artillery attacks on more than 10 settlements, in particular, Bachivsk, Khodine, Katerynivka of the Sumy region and Veterinarne, Kozacha Lopan and Budarka – Kharkiv region.

In the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions, the enemy actively continues to carry out airstrikes. At the same time, our defenders successfully repelled 7 enemy attacks in the areas south of Novoselivskyi, Novovodyanyi, west of Dibrova in the Luhansk region and northeast of Serebryansk Forestry and near Vesely of the Donetsk region. More than 15 settlements, in particular, Petro-Ivanivka, Novomlynsk, Kupyansk of the Kharkiv region, were subjected to enemy artillery and mortar attacks; Nevsky and Bilogorivka – Luhansk and Verkhnokamyansk, Berestov and Rozdolivka in the Donetsk region.

In the Bakhmut direction, under heavy fire from the enemy’s aircraft and artillery, our defenders successfully repelled 9 enemy attacks in the areas of Hryhorivka, Bohdanivka, west of Yagidny, Ivanovsky and southeast of Bela Hora of the Donetsk region. More than 15 settlements, including Kramatorsk, Kostyantynivka, Vasyukivka, Bohdanivka, Chasiv Yar, Predtechine and Klishchiivka of the Donetsk region, were affected by enemy artillery shelling.

In the Avdiivka direction, the enemy fired artillery at more than 10 settlements. In particular, Keramik, Avdiivka, Severne, Vodyane and Nevelske of the Donetsk region were affected.

In the Mariinka direction, under enemy airstrikes and artillery fire, our defenders repelled 15 enemy attacks in the area of the city of Mariinka. The enemy shelled more than 15 settlements. Among them are Krasnohorivka, Georgiivka, Maksimilianivka, Gostre and Pobyeda of the Donetsk region.

In the Shakhtarsky direction, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive actions in the Rivnopol area of the Donetsk region. Conducted an airstrike near Blagodatny, Donetsk region. He shelled more than 10 settlements, including Blagodatne, Vugledar, Bogoyavlenka, Shakhtarske, and Zolota Niva of the Donetsk region.

In the Zaporizhia and Kherson directions, the enemy is concentrating its main efforts on preventing the advance of our troops. He carried out artillery shelling of more than 30 settlements, including Gulyaipilske, Biloghirya, Mala Tokmachka of the Zaporizhzhia region; the settlements of Manganets, Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region; the settlement of Antonivka in the Kherson region and the city of Kherson.

The russian occupiers continue to violate the norms of international humanitarian law and use children’s institutions in temporarily occupied settlements to provide medical care to their wounded servicemen. Thus, in the village of Makarove, Luhansk region, on the territory of a children’s health camp, the russian occupiers set up a military hospital, where more than 100 wounded invaders are located. russian military equipment and checkpoints are scattered throughout the territory of the camp. Residential buildings of the local population are located in the immediate vicinity.

The situation is similar in the city of the Lyman, Luhansk region, where the russian occupiers converted the “Yal” children’s health camp into a military hospital, in which more than 100 wounded invaders are also being treated. The territory of the camp is also used to store military equipment.

Over the past day, the aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out 16 strikes on enemy personnel concentration areas.

During the day, Ukrainian units of missile troops and artillery hit 3 anti-aircraft missile complexes, 2 areas of concentration of manpower, 26 artillery pieces in firing positions and an enemy radio-electronic warfare station.

In total, Ukrainian soldiers eliminated 770 Russian invaders, 2 tanks, 9 armored fighting vehicles, 32 artillery systems, 6 anti-aircraft guns, 3 air defense vehicles, 29 operational-tactical UAVs and 9 vehicles.

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