According to the Ukrainian armed forces, they have fended off Russian attacks on several fronts. In the north of Kyiv The Ukrainian General Staff announced that Russian forces had failed to break through the defenses. Also the west of the capital City of Makariv the attackers could not have taken.
Advances in eastern Ukraine were also repulsed, for example in the city Lysychansk. The enemy suffered casualties and retreated. However, the attackers tried to get into the nearby town Rubishne in Donbass to fix. The enclosed south-eastern Ukrainian port of Mariupol is constantly being attacked from several directions with artillery and fighter planes, it said.
The General Staff accused the Russian units of increasing shelling of residential areas and critical infrastructure. The Russian troops are demoralized by the sluggish pace of the attack.