(MENAFN- UkrinForm) The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said this in a situation update published on Facebook , according to Ukrinform.

In its morning update on July 18, the General Staff reported that Russian forces carried out one missile strike and 72 airstrikes, using two missiles and dropping 137 guided aerial bombs, as well as 5,892 shelling attacks, including 95 with multiple launch rocket systems. As many as 3,442 kamikaze drones were deployed.

Enemy airstrikes targeted the areas of Okip, Borshchova, Vovchansk, and Chuhunivka in the Kharkiv region; Bilohiria and Stepnohirsk in the Zaporizhzhia region; and Olhivka in the Kherson region.

Ukrainian aircraft, missile troops and artillery struck two areas of concentration of enemy manpower, weapons and military equipment, a UAV control point, an air defense system, an artillery system and another important target of the Russian invaders.

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In the Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors, 21 combat engagements were recorded. The enemy carried out 18 airstrikes, dropping 29 guided aerial bombs, and conducted 356 shelling attacks, including six with MLRS.

In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector, Ukrainian forces repelled ten enemy attacks near Vovchansk, Zelene, and Starytsia.

In the Kupiansk sector, there were four Russian assaults. Ukrainian forces repelled enemy assault operations near Kupiansk, Zelenyi Hai, Nova Kruhliakivka, and in the direction of Pishchane.

In the Lyman sector, the enemy attacked Ukrainian positions 30 times, attempting to advance near the settlements of Novoiehorivka, Hrekivka, Karpivka, Zelena Dolyna, Kolodiazi, Serebrianka, and toward Novyi Myr, Korovyi Yar, Serednie, Torske, and Shandryholove.

In the Siversk sector, Ukrainian defenders repelled six Russian assaults near Hryhorivka and Vyimka.

In the Kramatorsk sector, 13 combat engagements were recorded in the areas of Chasiv Yar, Stupochky, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Bila Hora, and Predtechyne.

In the Toretsk sector, the enemy carried out nine attacks near Shcherbynivka, Oleksandro-Kalynove, Petrivka, Rusyn Yar, and toward Pleshchiivka and Katerynivka.

In the Pokrovsk sector, Ukrainian forces stopped 61 Russian assaults near the settlements of Poltavka, Popiv Yar, Rodynske, Novotoretske, Myroliubivka, Novoekonomichne, Lysivka, Novoukrainka, Zvirove, Udachne, Muravka, Oleksiivka, Dachne, and in the direction of Pokrovsk, Myrnohrad, Volodymyrivka, and Novopavlivka.

In the Novopavlivka sector, Ukrainian forces repelled 17 enemy attempts to break through defensive lines near Piddubne, Zirka, Temyrivka, Myrne, Voskresenka, Vilne Pole, Shevchenko, and Zelene Pole.

In the Orikhiv sector, Ukrainian forces repelled one Russian assault near Mala Tokmachka.

In the Huliaipole and Dnipro River sectors, the enemy did not conduct offensive operations over the past day.

In the Volyn and Polissia sectors, no signs of enemy offensive group formation were detected.

Photo: 4th Tank Brigade

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