General Staff: Russian troops on the offensive on Sievierodonetsk and Bakhmut fronts

Svitlana Kizilova – Tuesday, 24 May 2022, 19:03

Russian troops are focusing their efforts in Eastern Ukraine: they are conducting an offensive on Sievierodonetsk and Bakhmut fronts and trying to break through the Ukrainian defence on the Donetsk front.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook

Details: On the Donetsk front, Russian troops are conducting an offensive operation in an attempt to break through the defence of Ukrainian troops and reach the administrative borders of Luhansk Oblast.

There were no significant changes on the Volyn and Polissia fronts. There is a threat of Russian missile and air strikes on Ukraine from the territory of Belarus.

On the Siversk front, Russian forces continue to cover the Russian-Ukrainian border and to reinforce their strongpoints in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation. They conducted air strikes on civilian and military infrastructure in Sumy Oblast of Ukraine.

On the Slobozhansk front, units of Russian troops focused their efforts on maintaining their current positions.

Russian troops undertook no active combat operations on the Kharkiv and Sloviansk fronts. They conducted reconnaissance and undertook measures to create favourable conditions for resuming the offensive. Russian forces also shelled units of the Ukrainian defence forces from artillery near the village of Tsyrkuny. They conducted reconnaissance by combat near the village of Pasika, suffered losses, and were forced to retreat.

On the Donetsk front, Russian troops conducted air strikes on civilian infrastructure in the cities of Kramatorsk, Lyman, and Sloviansk.

Russian troops resumed the air- and artillery-supported offensive on the Lyman front, advancing on the city of Lyman.

They are also conducting an artillery-supported offensive on the city of Sievierodonetsk, on the Sievierodonetsk front; fighting continues.

On the Bakhmut front, Russian forces are advancing on the village of Lypove and the town of Bilohorivka.

On the Avdiivka, Kurakhove, Novopavlivske, and Zaporizhzhia fronts, Russian occupiers conducted attacks using military and assault aircraft. They continued to shell the positions of the Ukrainian defence forces and civilian infrastructure in and around Avdiivka, Pisky, and Mariinka from mortars and artillery.

Russian troops undertook no active combat operations on the Pivdennyi Buh front. They continued to attack Ukrainian troops from mortars, multiple rocket launchers, and artillery, and engaged in counter-battery combat. In addition, they conducted an air strike on the city of Mykolaivka and undertook measures to replenish equipment and logistical supplies of their units.

In temporarily occupied Crimea, Russian occupation forces are forming reserve units to be deployed in combat on the territory of Ukraine.

Quote from the General Staff: "The occupiers continue to violate the rights of Ukrainian citizens on the temporarily occupied territories by hindering their free movement and artificially creating a humanitarian crisis.

The Ukrainian defence forces are inflicting losses on the enemy troops across all fronts and are prepared for any changes in circumstances."