The 1,282nd day of large-scale armed aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine has begun. From August 27 to 28, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled 139 Russian attacks. The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled 41 attacks in the Pokrovsk direction, 21 in the Novopavlivka direction, and 20 in the Lyman direction.
This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
During the day, the invaders carried out 84 air strikes and dropped 154 guided bombs. In addition, the Russians used 5,770 kamikaze drones and carried out 5,177 artillery strikes on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and populated areas, including 86 strikes with multiple launch rocket systems.
The aggressor carried out air strikes on the following populated areas:
- Zarichchia in the Sumy region;
- Bilohirya and Stepnogorsk in the Zaporizhzhia region;
- Mykolaivka in the Kherson region.
Northern Slobozhansky and Kursk directions
The Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to hold back the invaders in the Northern Slobozhansky and Kursk directions. Over the past day, the enemy carried out 17 air strikes, dropping 33 guided bombs, and carried out 245 shelling attacks, four of which were from multiple launch rocket systems. Ukrainian defenders stopped nine enemy assaults.
South Slobozhansky, Kupyansky, Lyman, and Siversky directions
In the South Slobozhansky direction, the aggressor attacked the positions of Ukrainian defenders five times in the areas of the settlements of Hlybok, Kolodyazne, Vovchansk, and Kamianka.
Yesterday, there were six attacks by invaders in the Kupiansk direction. Ukrainian defenders stopped the enemy’s assault in the Kupiansk area.
In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked 20 times. They attempted to break through the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ defenses in the areas of Novomykhailivka, Novyi Mir, Zelenaya Dolina, Kolodyaziv, Torske, Serebryanka, and in the directions of Yampil, Zakytne, Dronivka, and Shandryholove.
In the Siverskyi direction, Ukrainian defenders successfully stopped three attacks near Fedorivka, Hryhorivka, and in the direction of Siversk.
Kramatorsk and Pokrovsk directions
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out nine attacks in the areas of Pleshchiivka, Toretsk, Shcherbinivka, Rusyn Yar, and Poltavka.
In the Pokrovsk direction, Ukrainian defenders stopped 41 assaults by the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Volodymyrivka, Novoekonomichne, Myrolyubivka, Sukhetske, Lysivka, Udachne, Mayak, Kotlyne, Novomykolaivka, Molodetske, Novoukrainka, and in the directions of the settlements of Myrnohrad, Rodynske, Promin, Balagan, Novopavlivka, Chervonyi Lyman, and Pokrovsk.
Novopavlivka, Prydniprovsk, Orikhiv, and other directions
In the Novopavlivka direction, the enemy carried out 21 attacks yesterday in the areas of the settlements of Filiya, Ivanivka, Voskresenka, Zaporizke, Tolstoy, Andriivka-Klevtsove, Piddubne, Komyshuvakha, Temyrivka, and in the direction of the settlements of Sichneve and Lisne.
No enemy offensive actions were recorded in the Kramatorsk, Huliaipole, Orikhiv, and Prydniprovsk directions over the past day.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected.
