Russian forces focus their assaults on Avdiivka and Kupiansk fronts – General Staff report

Ukrainian forces repelled 30 Russian assaults on the Avdiivka front and 12 on the Kupiansk front over the course of the past 24 hours. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 06:00 on 23 November Details: Over the course of the past day, Ukraine's defence forces clashed with Russian forces 74 times.

Russian forces carried out 3 missile strikes and 43 airstrikes and deployed multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) more than 64 times to attack the positions of Ukrainian troops and civilian settlements.

Russian forces also deployed 14 Shahed-136/131 drones to attack Ukraine on the night of 21-22 November. Ukraine's air defence intercepted all 14 Shaheds. Russian attacks killed and injured civilians and damaged private residential houses and other civilian infrastructure facilities.

Russian aircraft struck areas in Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts. Russian forces shelled more than 100 civilian settlements in Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson oblasts. On the Kupiansk front, in the area of responsibility of the Khortytsia Operational Strategic Group, Russian forces conducted offensive operations near Synkivka and to the northeast of Petropavlivka and Ivanivka (Kharkiv Oblast), with Ukrainian forces repelling 12 Russian assaults.

Russian forces did not undertake any offensive operations on the Lyman front. Russian forces also did not undertake any offensive operations on the Bakhmut front. Ukrainian forces are continuing assault operations to the south of the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast.

They are inflicting personnel and equipment losses on Russian forces and consolidating their positions. In the area of responsibility of the Tavriia Operational Strategic Group on the Avdiivka front, Russian forces are continuing their attempts to encircle the city of Avdiivka (Donetsk Oblast). Ukrainian forces are holding the line and inflicting significant losses on the Russians.

Russian forces conducted unsuccessful offensive operations to the east of Novobakhmutivka and to the north of Lastochkyne, Avdiivka and Pervomaiske (Donetsk Oblast), with Ukrainian forces repelling 30 assaults. On the Marinka front, Ukrainian forces repelled 18 Russian assaults in the vicinity of Marinka and Novomykhailivka (Donetsk Oblast). Russian forces conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the vicinity of Staromaiorske (Donetsk Oblast) on the Shakhtarsk front.

On the Zaporizhzhia front, Russian forces made 4 unsuccessful attempts to regain the positions they had previously lost near Robotyne (Zaporizhzhia Oblast). Meanwhile, Ukraine's defence forces are continuing to pursue the offensive on the Melitopol front and to carry out offensive operations on the Bakhmut front. They are inflicting personnel and equipment losses on the Russian forces and wearing them out all along the frontline.

On the Kherson front, in the areas of responsibility of the Odesa Operational Strategic Group, Ukrainian forces are holding the positions they took on the Left Bank of the River Dnipro (the eastern bank, which is largely Russian-controlled - ed.), engaging in counter battery fire, and striking positions beyond the Russian frontline. Over the course of today, Ukrainian aircraft carried out airstrikes on 11 clusters of Russian military personnel, weapons and equipment. Units of Ukrainian Rocket Forces and Artillery struck a Russian command post, 13 clusters of Russian military personnel, weapons and equipment, 4 artillery systems, and an ammunition storage point.

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