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In their daily report, Ukraine’s armed forces announced on Thursday morning that 226 clashes had been recorded over the past twenty-four hours. Nine Russian attacks were recorded in the direction of Kupiansk (🚩), in Kharkiv oblast. Defense forces repelled attacks on Petropavlivka, Pishchane and Bohuslavka, according to the statement.

In Donetsk Oblast, on the Pokrovsk axis (🚩), the Ukrainian army also succeeded in repelling 81 Russian attacks in the regions of Shakhove, Mayak, Novoeconomictchne, Nove Shakhove, Rodynske, Chervony Lyman, Myrnohrad, Novohrodivka, Zelene, Kotlyne, Udachne, Molodetske, Novomykołaïvka, Filiya, Datchne, and towards Novopavlivka. In the direction of Oleksandrivka (🚩), the defense forces managed to repel 15 enemy attacks near the settlements of Andriivka-Klevtsove, Sichneve, Sosnivka, Verbove, Zlahoda, Oleksandrohrad, Stepove, Rybnye. In the direction of Huliaipole (🚩), the defense forces managed to repel six attacks in the Zelenyi Hai area.

In Zaporizhia oblast, in the direction of Orikhiv (🚩), the Russians also tried five times, but in vain, to advance towards Ukrainian troop positions in the direction of Prymorske and Novodanylivka.