General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces: operational information regarding the Russian invasion (as of 06:00 19.02.2023)
For your attention — operational information from the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces as of 06:00 on February 19, 2023, regarding the Russian invasion of our country.
Note to attention — operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 06.00 on February 19, 2023 regarding the Russian invasion of our country.
Glory to Ukraine! The three hundred sixty-first day of Russia's large-scale invasion has begun.
During the day, Russian occupiers carried out four air strikes and 15 missile attacks, most of them targeting civilian infrastructure in Khmelnytskyi, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, and Kherson regions. The enemy also conducted over 50 artillery shelling with multiple rocket launchers.
The threat of Russian Federation's missile strikes remains high across the entire territory of Ukraine.
Main efforts of the enemy continue to be focused on conducting offensive operations in the Kupyansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Shakhtarsk directions.
Over the past day, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled attacks by occupiers in the areas of Granykivka and Masutivka villages in Kharkiv region; Bilohorivka, Chervonopopivka, and Kreminna — Luhansk and Viimykha, Fedorivka, Dubovo-Vasilivka, Berkhivka, Bakhmut, Ivanivske, and Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region.
On the Volynian, Polesian, Northern, and Slobozhansky directions the enemy continues to maintain certain units near Ukraine's border areas but no offensive groupings have been detected. During the day, enemy shelling affected the areas of 23 populated places, including Kozache, Bunyakine, Rizhivka, Volvino, and Volydymyrova in Sumy region as well as Veterinarnoe, Kozachya Lopan', Strilechye, and Krasnoe Pravoslavnoye in Kharkiv region.
On the Kupyansk and Lyman directions the enemy carried out shelling of populated places Novomlynivka, Dvorichna, Granykivka, Kupyansk, and Berestove in Kharkiv region; Stepanakhivka, Nevskoye, Chervonopopivka, Kreminna, Dybrova, and Bilohorivka in Luhansk region as well as Rozdolovka and Spirene in Donetsk region.
On the Bakhmut direction shelling affected the areas of 21 populated places. Among them — Zaliznyanske, Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar, Stupochki, Ivanivske, Klyshchyovka, Kurdyumivka, and New York in Donetsk region.
On the Avdiivka and Shakhtarsk directions enemy artillery shelling affected the areas of 16 populated places. This includes Avdiivka, Vodyane, Vesela, Nevel'ske, Georgiyivka, Marinka, Bohoyavlenka, Velika Novosilka, Zolota Niva, Vuhledar, and Neskyuchne in Donetsk region.
On the Zaporizhzhia direction fire affected areas of populated places Veremivka in Donetsk region as well as Maliyanyvka, Stepole, Malyy Shcherbak, Novodanilivka, Mala Tokmachka, and Bihor'ya in Zaporizhzhia.
On the Kherson direction areas of 27 populated places suffered from enemy artillery fire including Kherson as well as Berislaw, Kozatske, Poniivka, Sadove, Vesela, Antonivka, Velyetenskoye, and Berehovo in Kherson region.
The enemy is experiencing logistical supply problems for its units. For example, due to premature breakdown of modernized S-300 air defense missile systems, it is impossible to deliver combat components and perform maintenance on the equipment under battlefield conditions, so these missile systems have to be sent back to factories in Russia.
On temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea relatives of mobilized individuals are massively turning to the Russian Federation's Ministry of Defense due to violations of rights of servicemen. The main reasons include: lack of rotations and leave for over six months with no prospects in the next two-three months; inadequate food supply and sanitary conditions, forcing relatives to constantly send them food and personal items; use by Russian occupation officers of their official position for personal enrichment — enlisted and non-commissioned personnel are offered short-term leaves for a bribe of $1000. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation does not respond to citizens' complaints.
The aviation of the Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out six strikes against areas with enemy manpower and military equipment, as well as on positions of anti-aircraft missile complexes during the day.
Anti-aircraft defense forces shot down two cruise missiles of the "Kalibr" type over the course of a day, while rocket units and artillery hit one area of enemy manpower concentration.
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