The 79th day of heroic opposition of the Ukrainian nation to the Russian military invasion began.
The enemy does not stop conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control of the territory of Donetsk, Lugansk and Kherson regions and maintain a land corridor between these territories and the temporarily occupied Crimea. It also maintains tension in the Transnistrian region of Moldova and on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
This was reported in the morning summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on May 13.
In the Volyn and Polesye directions, the enemy did not take active actions. The main efforts of the units of the armed forces of the republic were focused on covering the state border in the Brest and Gomel regions.
In the Seversky direction , measures are being taken to strengthen the protection of a section of the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Bryansk and Kursk regions. According to available information, the enemy is deploying additional artillery units to the border areas of the Bryansk region in order to increase provocative shelling of settlements in the Chernihiv region located near the state border of Ukraine.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy is taking measures to regroup units, replenish stocks of ammunition and fuel and lubricants to restore offensive capabilities.
He did not carry out offensive operations in the Kharkov direction . The main efforts were concentrated on preventing the advance of our troops in the area of the settlement of Vesele.
In the Voronezh and Belgorod regions of the Russian Federation, the effect of an increased level of terrorist threat has been extended until May 25, 2022.
In the Donetsk direction , the enemy continues to concentrate his main efforts on establishing full control over the settlement of Rubizhne.
In the Limansky direction , enemy units tried to gain a foothold in the area of u200bu200bthe settlement of Aleksandrovka.
In the Bakhmut direction, the invaders carried out assault operations in the direction of the settlement of Orekhovo and in the area of the settlement of Kamyshevakh, but were not successful.
On the Kurakhovsky direction, the enemy conducted offensive operations in the direction of the settlement of Marinka.
He continued to inflict artillery and air strikes on Mariupol. The main efforts were focused on blocking the units of our troops in the area of the Azovstal plant. In order to establish complete control over the city, it uses strategic aviation. Given the measures to evacuate local residents, we should expect an increase in fire impact in the near future.
In the Novopavlovsk and Zaporozhye directions , the enemy fired artillery at Ukrainian troops along the entire line and conducted aerial reconnaissance using UAVs.
In the Yuzhnobuzhsky direction, the occupying units did not carry out active hostilities, they fired at units of the Ukrainian troops from cannon artillery and mortars in the areas of the settlements of Aleksandrovka, Tavrichesky, Kotlyarovo, Hannovka and Osokorovka.
Over the previous day, air defense units of the Ground Forces, Air Force and Air Assault Forces hit seven air targets: five UAVs of the Orlan-10 type, one Ka-52 helicopter and one cruise missile.
Aviation of the air forces in certain directions continued to inflict fire strikes on the enemy from the air and support the combat operations of our troops.
In the Donetsk and Lugansk directions alone, the defenders of Ukraine repelled 18 enemy attacks over the past day, destroyed 13 tanks, eight artillery systems, 27 armored vehicles, two units of special engineering equipment and five enemy vehicles.
Recall that Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the President’s Office, does not undertake to predict how long the war will continue . But he is confident that the Russians are exhausting their forces needed for the offensive. Arestovich admits that he sometimes makes mistakes in forecasts, but believes that the reason for this is the terrible idiocy of the Russian command.
