The applicable statement was designed by the Typical Employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, an Ukrinform correspondent stories.

Russian troops keep on concentrating efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka instructions.

At the very same time, Russian invaders are generating tries to strengthen their tactical place in the Lyman way. In the Kupiansk and Zaporizhzhia directions, enemy offensive groupings are expanding.

In the rest of instructions, Russian troops are making an attempt to restrain the steps of Ukraine’s Protection Forces, shelling the positions of Ukrainian forces and civilian objects situated alongside the speak to line.

In excess of the earlier day, the enemy has introduced two missile strikes and opened hearth with numerous launch rocket systems (MLRS) in excess of 5 periods. In unique, civil infrastructure was struck in Nikopol and Kherson. Casualties amongst civilians were being noted.

The threat of air and missile strikes on significant infrastructure objects is persisting all over Ukraine.

In the Volyn, Polissia and Siverskyi instructions, the problem remained alternatively unchanged. No symptoms of enemy offensive groupings being shaped had been detected. Russia is growing its air grouping and military models inside of the territory of Belarus.

In the Slobozhanskyi route, Russian invaders made use of tanks and artillery to open up fireplace near the Kharkiv region’s Vysoka Yaruha, Morokhovets, Starytsia, Dvorichna and Novomlynsk.

In the Kupiansk route, Russian occupiers struck the Kharkiv region’s Vilshana, Kyslivka, Kotliarivka, Berestove and Pershotravneve, and the Luhansk region’s Stelmakhivka and Miasozharivka.

In the Lyman path, Russian troops shelled the Luhansk region’s Makiivka and Chervonopopivka, and the Donetsk region’s Torske and Vedmezhe with tanks, mortars, cannon and rocket artillery.

In the Bakhmut way, Russian occupiers struck the Donetsk region’s Verkhniokamianske, Spirne, Bilohorivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Andriivka, Kurdiumivka, Ozarianivka, Pivnichne and Opytne.

In the Avdiivka direction, Russian invaders tried to strike the positions of Ukrainian forces in close proximity to the Donetsk region’s Avdiivka, Pervomaiske, Nevelske, Heorhiivka, Marinka and Novomykhailivka.

In the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson instructions, the enemy continues to open hearth on the positions of Ukrainian forces and civil infrastructure along the right financial institution of the Dnieper. In specific, Russian troops shelled the Donetsk region’s Vremivka and Novopil, the Zaporizhzhia region’s Huliaipole, Dorozhnianka, Huliaipilske, Orikhiv and Stepove, the Dnipropetrovsk region’s Nikopol, and the Kherson region’s Novotiahynka, Ivanivka, Tokarivka, Kherson, Inhulets and Bilozerka.

In accordance to the Typical Employees, Russian troops proceed to suffer losses. On December 13, 2022, near the Zaporizhzhia region’s Tokmak, Polohy and Berdiansk, Ukrainian forces destroyed two enemy ammunition depots, two artillery devices with ammunition masses, six armed service cars. Additional than 200 Russian invaders were being wounded.

As wellbeing amenities and morgues in the briefly occupied city of Melitopol are overcrowded, Russian occupiers are transporting corpses and evacuating the injured army to Crimea.

In order to replenish staff losses, the enemy has to staff the operational-tactical command amount with retired officers and those released to the reserve, sending them to the place of hostilities.

Around the past working day, Ukrainian air forces have launched 11 strikes on enemy personnel, ammunition and military services machines clusters, and two strikes on air protection technique positions.

Ukraine’s missile and artillery models hit two Russian command posts, 4 staff clusters and one particular gasoline depot.

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