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General Staff operational report August 22, 2023 on the Russian invasion of Ukraine Tuesday, August 22, 2023 - 18:55 (EEST)
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Russia’s attacks on the civilian infrastructure in Ukraine Where Russia has recently attacked Ukrainian territory Ukrainian countermeasures The 542nd day of the Russia-Ukraine War: official operational information by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on 19.08.2023. Russia’s attacks on the civilian infrastructure in Ukraine The Russian Federation used Iranian Shahed-136/131 combat UAVs to launch another airstrike on Ukraine. Updates on the terrorist attack’s aftermath are continuously being made. Recently, Russia attacked several communities and the positions of Ukrainian soldiers with 5 missiles, 44 air, and 17 MLRS strikes. Sadly, victims of the Russian terrorist acts include both dead and injured people. Damage was done to public infrastructure, including houses. The possibility of air and missile attacks across Ukraine is still quite strong. Recently, there have been officially recorded 26x combat engagements. Where Russia has recently attacked Ukrainian territory Map provided by the Institute for the Study of War Volyn and Polissya directions: no significant changes Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna directions: the Russian army launched air strikes in the vicinities of Chervona Zorya, and Veterynarne (Kharkiv oblast). It fired mortars and artillery at more than 25x Ukrainian urban settlements, including Karpovychi, Hrem’yach (Chernihiv oblast), Seredyna-Buda, Rozhkovychi, Vodolahy (Sumy oblast), Strilecha, Vovchans’k, Krasnyi Yar, Zemlyanky (Kharkiv oblast) Kup’yans’k direction: Russian troops conducted unsuccessful offensives in the vicinity of Syn’kivka (Kharkiv oblast) in Ukraine. Russian forces launched air strikes in the vicinities of Kurylivka, Kyslivka, and Hlushkivka (Kharkiv oblast). The following settlements were shelled with Russian artillery and mortars: Kam’yanka, Krasne Pershe, Masyutivka, Kyslivka, Berestove (Kharkiv oblast) Lyman direction: Russian soldiers launched air strikes in the vicinities of Bilohorivka (Luhansk oblast) and Spirne (Donetsk oblast). About 15x settlements, including Nevs’ke, Kreminna, Bilohorivka (Luhansk oblast), Tors’ke, Sviato-Pokrovske, Spirne, and Rozdolivka (Donetsk oblast), were shelled with artillery Bakhmut direction: Russia attempted offensive operations in the areas east of Bila Hora and Toretsk (Donetsk oblast), to no success. It launched air strikes in the vicinities of Klishchiivka and Andriivka (Donetsk oblast). More than 15x settlements, including Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Bakhmut, Bila Hora, Dyliivka, Pleshchiivka, and New York (Donetsk oblast), suffered from Russian artillery shelling Avdiivka direction: Russia attempted offensive operations in the vicinities of Novokalynove and Avdiivka (Donetsk oblast), to no success. It fired artillery at more than 15x settlements, including Keramik, Novokalynove, Tonen’ke, Siverne, Nevel’s’ke, Netailove, and Karlivka (Donetsk oblast) Maryinka direction: the Ukrainian...
All maps are provided by the Institute for the Study of War and AEI’s Critical Threat Project. The 218th day of the Russia-Ukraine War: official operational information by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on 29.09.2022. Russia is still concentrating its efforts on attempting to fully occupy the Donetsk oblast and retain the lands it has taken, as well as to obstruct the Ukrainian Defense Forces’ liberating operations in certain directions. The Russian army is performing illegal aerial surveillance while firing Ukrainian soldiers’ positions along the contact line. The Russian Federation’s attacks on calm residential areas and the infrastructure used by civilians are all prohibited by international humanitarian law. The possibility of airstrikes and missile attacks on the entire area of Ukraine still exists. Russia conducted more than twenty-eight MLRS assaults today, including four missile launches, four airstrikes, and four air attacks. Russian attacks had an impact on more than twenty Ukrainian communities. They include Myrne, Bakhmut, Kryvyi Rih, Kramatorsk, Mykolayiv, Nikopol, Pavlivka, and Visokopillia. More than ten civilians were wounded as a result of the attack on the Kryvyi Rih thermal power plant in Zelenodolsk city, Ukraine. There hasn’t been much of a shift in the Volyn and Polissia directions. The Russian army also used tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery to fire in other directions in Ukraine: Veterynarne, Sosnivka, Strilecha, Krasne, Hlyboke, Kolodiazne, Dvorichna, Hrushivka, Senkove and Oskil Ukrainian villages in the Slobozhanskyi direction; Temyrivka, Yablukove, Uspenivka, Poltavka, Zaliznychne, Huliaipole, Charivne, Dorozhnianka, Kamyanske, Mala Tokmachka, Bilohiria, Chervone in the Zaporizhzhia region; Katerynivka, Nove, Novoselivka, Bohorodychne, Pryshyb, Blakytni Ozera, Shchurove, Donetske, Staryi Karavan, Dibrova, Rayhorodok, Ozerne, Zakitne, and Verkhnyokamyanske in the Kramatorsk area; the Senkivka district (Chernihiv region) in the Siversky direction; Berdychi, Avdiyivka, Pervomayske, Opytne, Pisky and Mariyinka in the Avdiyivka area; Vremivka, Velyka Novosilka, Novopil, Neskuchne and Novoukrayinka near Novopavlivsk ; Rozdolivka, Vesele, Bilohorivka, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Ivanovske, Vesela Dolyna, Odradivka, Zaytseve and Toretsk in the Bakhmut direction. Russian tanks, mortars, and barrel artillery were used to bombard more than thirty-five towns along the contact line in the South Buh direction in Ukraine. Nikopol, Visokopillia, Arkhanhelske, Osokorivka, Ternivka, Bilohirka, Suhyi Stavok, Blahodatne, Olhyne, Lymany, Pravdyne, and Myrne, in particular. The command of the Russian army continues to employ all possible techniques to enable units that have lost soldiers in action on Ukrainian...
