Operational information as of the evening of December 28, 2022 from the General Staff

The three-hundred-eights (308) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues. During the day, the occupiers launched 2 air strikes and 2 missile strikes, as well as launched more than 10 MLRS attacks. The enemy continues offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka areas and tries to improve the tactical position in the Lyman areas.

In other directions, the enemy is defending. The situation remains stable in the Volyn, Polissya, Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions, no signs of the formation of offensive groups of the occupiers have been detected. On the Slobozhanskyi direction, areas of Veterynarne, Ohirtseve, Hatyshche, Vovchansk, Starytsa, Dvorichna, Novomlynsk settlements of the Kharkiv oblast were subjected to artillery and mortar shelling.

On the Kupyansk and Lyman directions, the enemy shelled the areas of more than 20 settlements. Among them are Synkivka, Vilshana, Kupyansk, Kyslivka and Krokhmalne of the Kharkiv oblast; Stelmakhivka, Ploshchanka, Chervonopopivka and Dibrova in the Luhansk oblast, as well as Yampolivka in the Donetsk oblast. Areas of more than 20 settlements were also affected by fire in the Bakhmut direction.

In particular, these are Spirne, Bilohorivka, Soledar, Hryhorivka, Bakhmutske, Chasiv Yar, Bakhmut, Kostyantynivka, Mayorsk and New York in Donetsk oblast. In the Avdiivka direction, the enemy fired from tanks, mortars and barrel artillery at the districts of Berdychi, Avdiivka, Pervomaiske, Maryinka and Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk oblast. Vremivka, Velyka Novosilka, Vuhledar, and Prechystivka in Donetsk oblast came under the influence of fire in the Novopavlivsk direction.

In the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions, the russian occupiers terrorized residents of more than 25 settlements with artillery fire. Among them are Hulyaipole, Malynivka, Charivne and Dorozhnianka in the Zaporizhzhia oblast and Respublikanets, Kozatske and Lviv in the Kherson oblast. Once again, the civilian infrastructure of Antonivka, Kherson oblast, and the city of Kherson itself were damaged by enemy shelling.

There are victims among the civilian population. russian occupiers continue to die ingloriously in Ukraine. In the Zaporizhzhia region, the destruction of one S300 anti-aircraft missile system, 8 units of military equipment of various types and types of ammunition was confirmed in the previous days. More than 150 servicemen were injured.

The number of those eliminated is being specified. At the same time, in the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia region, russian servicemen and mercenaries of the occupation forces are leaving their places of service en masse. Separate divisions of the russian guard were sent to the city of Prymorsk for search operations.

According to preliminary information, more than 200 people are wanted.

During the current 24 hours, the Ukrainian aviation carried out 4 strikes on the areas where the invaders were concentrated, and units of the missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine hit 2 control points, 2 areas of concentration of manpower and the enemy's ammunition warehouse.