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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recorded 251 combat engagements over the past 24 hours

UA NEWS 24 June 2026 09:42
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recorded 251 combat engagements over the past 24 hours

Ukrainian defense forces are holding back a large-scale offensive by Russian occupation forces, which engaged in 251 combat clashes along the entire front line over the past 24 hours. 

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy continues to actively use aircraft, artillery, and a record number of drones to strike the positions of Ukrainian defenders and frontline settlements. 

The situation remains most critical in the Pokrovsk sector, where more than forty enemy attacks have been recorded.

Throughout yesterday, the invaders carried out four missile strikes using six missiles and 77 airstrikes, during which they dropped 260 guided bombs. 

In addition, the Russian army deployed 9,741 kamikaze drones and carried out 3,159 shelling attacks on populated areas and the positions of our troops, including 42 using multiple launch rocket systems. 

In the Sumy region, areas near the towns of Tovstodubove and Bachivsk were hit by airstrikes.

In response, the Ukrainian Air Force, missile forces, and artillery struck twenty areas where enemy personnel were concentrated. 

In addition, two artillery systems and five command posts of the occupying forces were targeted by Ukrainian forces. 

Nine clashes took place in the Kursk and Northern Slobozhanshchyna sectors, where the enemy fired 68 times at our positions.

In the Southern Slobozhansky direction, Ukrainian units successfully repelled thirteen enemy attacks. 

Russian units attempted to advance near the settlements of Kozacha Lopan, Izbytske, Starytsia, and Okhrimivka, as well as in the direction of Kutkivka, Lyman, and Vovchanski Khutory. In the Kupiansk sector, one enemy attempt to attack in the direction of Shyikivka was recorded.

Attempts to breach Ukrainian defenses were completely repelled in the Lyman sector, where the occupiers launched sixteen attacks in the areas around the settlements of Ozerne, Novoselivka, Drobysheve, and Lyman. 

In the Sloviansk sector, the enemy carried out sixteen assault operations. The aggressor attempted to advance in the areas around the settlements of Kryva Luka, Riznykivka, and Zakytne, as well as in the direction of Rai-Oleksandrivka.

In the Kramatorsk sector, the occupying forces carried out one attack in the direction of the settlement of Malynivka. 

In the Kostiantynivka sector, the enemy was significantly more active, carrying out twenty attacks in the areas around the settlements of Pleshchiivka, Ivanopillia, Illinivka, Kostiantynivka, and Rusyn Yar.

The highest number of assaults was recorded in the Pokrovsk sector, where our defenders repelled forty-four attacks. 

The enemy was active near Bilytske, Nikanorivka, Dobropillia, Rodynske, Novooleksandrivka, Serhiivka, and Kotlyne, as well as in the direction of Hryshyne, Myrne, Vilne, Toretske, Kuchero-Yar, Dorozhne, Novy Donbas, Hannivka, Muravka, and Filiya.

In the Oleksandrivka sector, the invaders carried out one assault in the direction of the settlement of Oleksandrohrad. 

In the Huliaipole sector, the occupiers attacked Ukrainian positions 24 times, attempting to advance near Verkhnia Tersa, Huliaipole, Rybne, Dobropillia, Huliaipole, and Zaliznychne, as well as toward Rivne, Kosivtseve, Zarichne, Staroukrainka, Danilivka, and Charivne. 

In the Orikhiv, Dnipro, Volyn, and Polissya sectors, no assault operations or signs of the enemy forming offensive groups were detected.

This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported 246 combat engagements on the front lines over the past 24 hours

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