The General Staff has released a map of combat operations as of August 13, 2026
Over the past day, 204 combat engagements took place along the front line. The situation remained most intense in the Pokrovsk sector, where Ukrainian forces repelled 26 enemy assaults.
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Over the past day, Russian troops carried out 78 airstrikes, during which they dropped 260 guided bombs. In addition, the occupiers deployed 10,066 kamikaze drones and carried out 3,089 shelling attacks on the positions of the Defense Forces and populated areas.
Artillery shelling targeted Korenok, Shpil, Bezsalivka, Seredina-Buda, Yastrubshchyna, Ulanove, Neskuchne, Rohizne, Bachivsk, Sopych, Tovstodubove, and Shalygyne in Sumy Oblast, as well as Kryvusha, Kamin, and Mykhalchyna-Sloboda in Chernihiv Oblast.
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Over the past day, the Ukrainian Defense Forces’ air force, missile forces, and artillery struck eight areas where enemy personnel were concentrated, three artillery systems, and an ammunition depot.
In the Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk directions
Ukrainian defenders repelled four enemy assaults. At the same time, the enemy carried out one airstrike using three guided bombs and fired 52 times on Ukrainian military positions and populated areas, including three attacks using multiple-launch rocket systems.
In the Southern Slobozhansky direction
Ukrainian units repelled nine enemy attacks. The invaders attempted to advance in the Starytsia area, as well as in the directions of Vilkhuvatka and Kolodyazne.
In the Kupiansk sector
Russian troops carried out one attack in the direction of Novoplatonivka.
In the Lyman sector
The occupiers attempted to break through Ukrainian defenses four times, attacking toward Novoselivka and in the Zarichne area.
In the Sloviansk direction
The enemy carried out 21 assault operations in the areas of Riznykivka, Zakitne, and Kryva Luka, as well as in the direction of Rai-Oleksandrivka.
In the Kramatorsk sector
The occupiers attacked twice in the area of Fedorivka Druha and in the direction of Yurkivka.
In the Kostiantynivka sector
The enemy carried out 19 attacks in the areas of Kostiantynivka, Ivanopil, Illinivka, and Rusyno Yar, as well as in the directions of Dovha Balka and Toretsk.
In the Pokrovsk sector
Ukrainian defenders repelled 26 enemy attacks. The occupiers attempted to advance in the areas of Novy Shakhovyi, Dorozhnyi, Udachne, and Molodetske, as well as in the directions of Kuchero-Yar, Bilytske, Ivanivka, Novyi Donbas, Svitlyi, Serhiivka, and Novopavlivka.
In the Oleksandrivka sector
The invaders carried out three attacks in the direction of Novoye Zaporozhye.
On the Huliaipole sector
The occupiers attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 14 times. The enemy attempted to advance in the directions of Vozdvizhivka, Hirky, Rivne, Verkhnia Tersa, and Novoselivka.
In the Orikhiv sector
Ukrainian defenders repelled three enemy attempts to advance toward Novoyakovlivka and Primorsky.
In the Dnipro sector
Defense Forces repelled three assaults by Russian troops in the direction of the Antonivsky Bridge.
In the Volyn and Polissya sectors, no signs of the enemy forming offensive groups have been detected.
This was reported with reference to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
