The Russian forces are focusing their main efforts on the Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Maryinka directions, where 26 combat clashes took place in the past 24 hours. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in its morning update on Facebook.

"The enemy continues to focus its main efforts on the Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Maryinka directions - 26 combat clashes took place, with Bakhmut and Maryinka remaining at the epicenter of hostilities," the report says.

Over the past 24 hours, the enemy launched 41 airstrikes, as well as 53 MLRS attacks. Civilians were affected; private residential buildings and other civilian and administrative infrastructure were destroyed and damaged.

The threat of Russia’s further missile attacks and airstrikes across the entire territory of Ukraine remains high.

In the Volyn and Polissia directions, the operational situation has not changed significantly.

In the Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna directions, the enemy launched an airstrike on the area near Dovzhanka, carried out mortar and artillery attacks on the settlements of Khrinivka, Yeline, and Hremyach of Chernihiv region; Hudove, Vovkivka, Buniakyne, Stukalivka, Volfyne, Novomykolaivka, Riasne, and Velyka Pysarivka of Sumy region, as well as Stohnii, Udy, Strelecha, Hlyboke, Morokhovets, Lyptsi, Neskuchne, Ohirtseve, Hatyshche, Pletenivka, Vovchansk, Varvarivka, Nesterne, Budarky and Zemlianka of Kharkiv region.