Situation at the front: 229 combat clashes recorded, the heaviest fighting continues in the Pokrovsk direction

Situation at the front: 229 combat clashes recorded, the heaviest fighting continues in the Pokrovsk direction

In total, during the past day, June 13, 2026, 229 combat engagements were recorded on the front.

This is reported by the press center of the General Staff.

Shelling

According to updated data, yesterday the enemy carried out 127 airstrikes and dropped 391 guided aerial bombs. In addition, it used 9,192 kamikaze drones and conducted 3,001 strikes on populated areas and positions of our troops, including 112 with MLRS.

Airstrikes hit, in particular, Pavlivka, Pustohorod, Luzhky, and Brusky in Sumy region.

Strikes on the enemy

Over the past day, aviation, missile troops, and artillery of the Defence Forces struck twelve areas of concentration of enemy manpower, two artillery systems, and a UAV control point.

The General Staff reports that the total losses of Russian troops over the past day amounted to 1,440 personnel. Also destroyed were five tanks, fourteen armored combat vehicles, 57 artillery systems, three MLRS, one air defense system, thirteen ground robotic complexes, 2,132 UAVs, 401 units of automotive equipment, one unit of special equipment, and the enemy’s heavy flamethrower system.

Situation in the North

On the North Slobozhanskyi and Kursk directions, two combat engagements took place over the past day. The enemy carried out three airstrikes using nine guided aerial bombs, conducted 82 strikes on positions of our troops and populated areas, including six with MLRS.

Situation in Kharkiv region

On the South Slobozhanskyi direction, the enemy attacked the positions of our units seven times in the areas of Vovchansk, Izybitske, Zybine, and toward Lyman.

On the Kupyansk direction, our defenders repelled one enemy attempt to advance toward Novoplatonivka.

Situation in the east

On the Lyman direction, the enemy attempted to breach our defense seventeen times near Novyi Myr, Drobysheve, Lyman, Dibrova, Torske, Ozernyi, and toward Shyikivka, Novoiehorivka, and Nadiya.

On the Slovyansk direction, the enemy stormed positions fourteen times in the area of Zakitne and toward Mykolaivka, Kryva Luka, and Rai-Oleksandrivka.

On the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy did not conduct offensive operations.

On the Kostyantynivka direction, the occupiers carried out fourteen attacks near Pleshchiivka, Kostyantynivka, Ivanopillya, and Illinivka.

“On the Pokrovsk direction, our defenders repelled 39 assault actions by the aggressor in the areas of Vasylivka, Rodynske, Shevchenko, Novopidhorodne, Pokrovsk, Hryshyne, Kotlyne, Udachne, Novopavlivka, and toward Bilytskyi, Dorozhnie, Hannivka, Novyi Shakhove, Kucherov Yar, and Serhiivka,” the report says.

Situation in the South

On the Oleksandrivka direction, the enemy attacked once in the area of Voronyi.

On the Huliaipole direction, the occupiers conducted 32 attacks in the areas of Rybne, Olenokostiantynivka, Huliaipilske, Ternuvate, Zaliznychne, Verkhnia Tersa, Charivne, and toward Hirke, Dobropillia, and Vozdvyzhivka.

On the Orikhiv direction, our defenders repelled three enemy attempts to advance in the areas of Stepove, Stepnohirsk, and toward Prymorsk.

On the Prydniprovskyi direction, Ukrainian units halted one enemy attack toward the Antonivka Bridge.

On the Volyn and Polissia directions, no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected.

Ukrainian defenders continue to systematically destroy the enemy and effectively hold it back on all sections of the front.