General Staff: The occupiers concentrate on the Donetsk front

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO - THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022, 18:35

Russian troops have focused their efforts on the Donetsk front, where they intensified offensive and assault operations.

Source: summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as of 6 p.m.

Quote: "The main focus of the enemy was on the Donetsk front, where they used aircraft, artillery and mortars."

Details: Russian occupying forces fired artillery and mortars at the border settlements of Sumy Oblast: Esman, Sopych and Seredyna-Buda.

On the Slobozhanskyi front, occupiers focused their efforts on maintaining occupied positions and preventing the [Ukrainian] Defense Forces from advancing into the temporarily occupied territory. In some areas they tried, unsuccessfully, to conduct counterattacks in order to restore lost positions.

Fighting continues in the areas of Ternov and Borshchiv. Occupiers are conducting enhanced aerial reconnaissance.

On the Sloviansk front, Russian occupying forces fired on civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Pryshyb, Hrushuvakha and Bohorodychne.

On the Donetsk front, in order to improve the tactical situation in some areas, Russian occupying forces intensified offensive and assault operations.

In the Sievierodonetsk district, occupiers carried out assault operations, suffered losses and retreated to previously occupied positions. Fighting continues in the area of the town of Toshkivka.

The occupiers carried out offensive operations in the area of the village of Oleksandropil (until 2016 known as Rozivka) in the Yasynuvata district and tried to improve the tactical situation in the areas of the villages of Pylypchatyne, Druzhba and Trypillia. They do not succeed.

On the Avdiivka front, with the support of artillery, Russian occupying forces conducted assault operations in the area of Novobakhmutivka, but were unsuccessful, suffered losses and retreated.

On the Kurakhiv front, Russian occupying forces, with the support of rocket artillery and heavy flamethrower systems, launched an offensive in the areas of the villages of Stepne, Slavne and Marinka, without success.

On the Lyman front, Russian occupying forces did not conduct any offensive operations, but fired on civilian infrastructure in the areas of Ozerne and Lyman.

The situation has not changed significantly on the Volyn and Polissya, Siversk and Pivdennyi Buh fronts, as well as in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova.