Russian forces deploy Grad MLRS near Sumy Oblast – General Staff report
WEDNESDAY, 29 JUNE 2022, 07:16
Russian forces have deployed a Grad multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS) near the Ukrainian border in order to launch attacks on Sumy Oblast.
Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 06:00 on 29 June
Details: On the Volyn and Polissia fronts, Belarus continues to inspect the combat readiness of its Armed Forces. Military exercises will be held in Gomel Oblast [Belorus - ed.] between 28 June and 16 July. Belarusian troops will practise forming separate infantry battalions of the territorial forces, conducting combat coordination activities, and organising security and defence of various facilities. There is still a threat of missile and airstrikes against Ukraine from the territory of Belarus.
On the Sivershchyna front, Russia continues to maintain the presence of up to three battalion tactical groups from the 1st Tank and 20th Combined Arms armies, as well as units of airborne troops on the territories of Bryansk and Kursk oblasts [in Russia near the border with Ukraine - ed.]. Russian forces used artillery to fire on the positions of Ukrainian troops in Sumy and Chernihiv oblasts.
On the Kharkiv front, units of Russian troops are focusing their main efforts on maintaining their current positions and have conducted reconnaissance operations near Tsyrkuny and Kutuzivka in order to determine the positions of Ukrainian troops.
On the Sloviansk front, Russia’s efforts are focused on conducting assault operations, the goal of which is for the Russian troops to advance to the Bohorodychne – Krasnopillia line and to create favourable conditions for a further offensive on Barbinkove and Sloviansk. Russian forces fired on Ukrainian troop positions near Maiaky and Serebrianka. Russian forces also received a supply of weapons and military equipment as part of the effort to replenish losses and restore combat capability.
On the Donetsk front, Russia has focused on conducting hostilities towards Lysychansk and Bakhmut in order to encircle Lysychansk.
On the Lysychansk front, Russian forces continued to mount an offensive towards Vovchoiarivka – Verkhniokamianka.
On the Bakhmut front, Russian occupying forces are advancing towards Midna Ruda – Klynove. They were partially successful and are consolidating their positions in the northern part of Klynove and near the E-40 road (near the Vuhledar Thermoelectric Power Plant). One additional battalion tactical group was transferred to the Bakhmut front in order to reinforce the Russian presence there and to maintain the pace of the offensive.
Russia has transferred up to two battalion tactical groups from the Avdiivka and Bakhmut fronts to the Novopavlivka front.
Russia did not undertake active combat operations on the Avdiivka, Kurakhove, and Zaporizhzhia fronts, but systematically fired on Ukrainian troop units in order to pin them down and prevent them from being transferred to other fronts.
On the Pivdennyi Buh and Tavriia fronts, Russian troop units are focused on maintaining their existing positions and preventing Ukrainian troops from launching a counteroffensive in Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts.
Russia has transferred up to one battalion tactical group to an area on the Kryvyi Rih front.
On the Mykolaiv front, Russia has deployed an additional S-300VM anti-ballistic missile system.
Ships from the Russian Black Sea fleet continue to block all shipping and to conduct reconnaissance in the northwestern part of the Black Sea. Three naval cruise missile carriers (equipped with Kalibr cruise missiles) remain in the waters of the Black Sea, at the ready to launch missiles.