“The seventh day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian invasion continues,” Ukraine’s Joint Forces Operation Headquarters (JFO HQ) posted on Facebook.

According to the operational information, in the Podilsk direction, the enemy is trying to continue the offensive operations along the border of Horenychi, Hostomel, Demidiv towards Kyiv to block the capital from the northern and north-western directions.

It continued: “In Zhytomyr region, there are up to three battalion tactical groups (BTGs) of the 5th Combined Army; In the northern direction, up to seventeen BTGs of the occupying forces, despite the loss of manpower and equipment, continue offensive operations to block Kyiv from the northeast. The invaders were stopped in the areas of Kozelets, Bobrovytsia, and Makiiv. In the other direction, in the areas of the settlements Svitilnya, Peremoha, and Hostroluchcha, the enemy troops lost their offensive potential.”

As noted, the enemy troops with forces up to two battalion tactical groups are making unsuccessful attempts to keep the heroic Ukrainian cities of Sumy, Lebedyn, and Okhtyrka surrounded. In the Slobozhansky direction, up to sixteen battalion tactical groups continue the offensive operation towards Krasnohrad, up to four battalion tactical groups – towards Izium. The invader suffered losses and was stopped near the settlements of Bohodukhiv, Chuguiv, Shevchenkove.

If further said that in the Donetsk direction, without success, the aggressor focused on blocking the city of Mariupol. In the Tavriya direction, the enemy continues its offensive operations in the areas of the settlements of Skadovsk, Hola Prystan, Kherson, Snihurivka, and Nova Kakhovka. After regrouping, the enemy continues to move towards Kherson and Mykolayiv. Up to two battalion tactical groups operate near Vasylivka, Chervone Pole, Novopetrivka.

In the Black Sea Operational Zone, the enemy deploys a naval group and continues preparations for a naval landing operation.

It claims that unsuccessful in advancing its forces, the enemy insidiously continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on critical infrastructure in order to intimidate the civilian population, which is courageously side by side with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The occupiers have losses in all directions.

Russian president Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine on February 24 and launched a large-scale invasion.