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There were 136 combat engagements in the frontline - General Staff:

Over the last day, 136 combat engagements took place, most of them in the Pokrovsk sector - 41 attacks. The enemy carried out 58 air strikes, used 436 kamikaze drones and fired 3169 times at Ukrainian positions and populated areas.

Since the beginning of the day, 136 combat engagements have taken place, in particular, the enemy attacked 41 times in the Pokrovsk sector, the enemy is also active in the Lyman and Kurakhiv sectors, according to a report by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 22:00 on Sunday, UNN reports.

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“The Russian invaders launched one strike with three missiles and 58 air strikes, dropping 95 UAVs. In addition, they engaged 436 kamikaze drones and fired 3169 times at the positions of our troops and settlements,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on Facebook.

Reportedly, 41 combat engagements took place in the Pokrovsk sector in the vicinity of eight localities. The enemy concentrated almost half of the attacks near Novohrodivka. The defense forces have repelled 37 attacks in the sector, and the occupants' attacks are still ongoing near Vozdvyzhenka, Novooleksandrivka, Kalynove and in the direction of Sukhoi Balka.

“Preliminary, 254 occupants were neutralized in this sector today. Two armored personnel carriers, two artillery systems, three UAVs and 15 vehicles were also destroyed. In addition, an armored personnel carrier, an artillery system, a 120-mm mortar and three vehicles were damaged,” the report says.

In the Liman sector, 21 combat engagements took place in the vicinity of seven different localities during the day, with the main focus of attacks in the areas of Nevske and Druzhelyubivka, where 13 attacks took place.

In the Kurakhove sector, the enemy attacked our positions 18 times near Karlivka, Nevelske, Pervomaiske, Heorhiivka, Mykhailivka and Kostiantynivka. “Our troops destroyed four infantry fighting vehicles and damaged three. In addition, the occupants lost six vehicles and 25 servicemen forever,” the report said.

In the Kupyansk sector, the enemy attacked our defenses 13 times near Petropavlivka, Synkivka, Hlushkivka, Kolesnykivka, Lozova and Stelmakhivka. Eleven battles are over, two are ongoing.

In the Kramatorsk sector, there were 12 engagements. The enemy made the main efforts in the area of Chasovyi Yar, where it conducted seven unsuccessful assaults. --->READ MORE HERE

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says more territory seized in ongoing Kursk incursion:

Speaking to members of the foreign press in the capital Kyiv, the Ukrainian president said that the incursion into Kursk was launched "preventively" to stop Russia from occupying the Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv and Sumy.

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said his forces have seized more territory in Kursk as they advance deeper into the Russian region.

In his nightly video address he said Ukrainian troops had advanced up to three kilometres and taken control of two more settlements, without naming them.

Speaking to members of the foreign press in the capital Kyiv earlier on Sunday, Zelenskyy said that the incursion into Kursk was launched "preventively" in order to stop Russia from occupying the Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv and Sumy.

"Russia prepared an invasion of the Kharkiv region and wanted to occupy millions of people in the city of Kharkiv. Today 1.5 million people live there because Russia attacked this direction and destroyed houses in small towns and villages of Kharkiv region," he said.

"People came to Kharkiv and there are now 1.5 million people there. Russia wants to occupy this city, it was part of their operation, but we disrupted this offensive."

Zelenskyy's comments come after a British national working for Reuters was killed in a Russian strike on a hotel in Kramatorsk.

The body of safety advisor Ryan Evans was found under the rubble on Sunday after a missile hit the Hotel Sapphire in the eastern Ukrainian city the night before.

Four of the six injured are part of the same Reuters team. One of them is Ukrainian, and the other three are foreigners from the US, Latvia and Germany.

Two were being treated in the hospital on Sunday.

Local officials said that the hotel had been struck by an Iskander ballistic missile, leaving the news team with blast injuries, concussion and cuts on the body.

Reporters at the scene described the former hotel as "rubble", with excavators still being used to clear debris hours after the attack. --->READ MORE HERE