According to the information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy continues to concentrate his efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Zaporizhia directions. In other directions, the enemy is trying to restrain the actions of the units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, shelling the positions of Ukrainian troops and civilian objects along the entire line of contact, carrying out engineering equipment of defensive lines and positions.
More than 1298 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. As of the morning of December 13, 2022, the official number of child victims per day has not changed – 443. The data regarding the wounded has not changed – 855.
There remains the threat of the enemy launching air and missile strikes on civilian infrastructure throughout Ukraine.
The Russian occupation troops actions:
During the day, the enemy launched 7 missile strikes, 5 of which hit the civilian infrastructure of the city of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, and also carried out 79 attacks from MLRS, in particular on the city of Kherson. There are civilian casualties.
The Russian occupiers continue to use the infrastructure of medical and sanatorium resorts in the temporarily occupied and occupied territories of Ukraine to provide qualified medical care to their wounded servicemen. So, in the city of Luhansk, one of the buildings of the occupier’s maternity hospital was converted into a military hospital. And in the city of Melitopol, the premises of a children’s sanatorium are used as a military hospital. Medical personnel from the Russian federation are involved in providing medical assistance.
The Ukrainian army actions:
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka, Novoehorivka, Makiivka, Chervonpopivka, and Belogorivka of the Luhansk Oblast and Verkhnyokamianske, Soledar, Yakovlivka, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Kurdyumivka, Mayorsk, Avdiivka, and Maryinka Donetsk Oblast.
During the past day, the Air Force of the Defense Forces carried out 5 strikes on areas where the enemy’s personnel, weapons and military equipment are concentrated.
Over the past 24 hours, units of missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine hit 2 control points and 6 areas of concentration of personnel of the russian occupiers and a fuel and lubricants warehouse.