Ukrainian Army General Staff: Enemy trying to capture Kyiv, battles for Melitopol going on

The Russian military is trying to attack Kyiv and for this purpose, they are attacking from the Kozelets-Brovary and Konotop-Nizhin-Kyiv directions, the city of Konotop has been lost, Report informs, citing the operational information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

"Now the enemy, having received a worthy rebuff from the defenders of Chernihiv, is trying to bypass the city and attack the capital. With the same purpose, with the attack on Kyiv, regardless of losses, the enemy is rushing in the direction of Kozelets-Brovary and the direction of Konotop-Nizhin-Kyiv. The city Konotop has been lost," a Facebook post reads.

The General Staff reported that Russian Il-76s with paratroopers on board landed at the Belarusian airfield Gomel.

"Because of the damage to the runway of the Hostomel airfield, the enemy decided to advance on their own from the territory of Belarus in the direction of Gomel- Chernihiv-Kyiv," the report says.

In the Seversk region, units of the 1st separate tank brigade stopped the enemy along the Bilous River.

"In the south, the enemy is continuing to carry out its plans of conquest, having reached the line of Kherson, Novaya Kakhovka, Kakhovka in order to hold the dam of the North Crimean Canal to provide water to the temporarily occupied peninsula of Crimea. The fight is underway for the Ukrainian city of Melitopol," the General Staff stressed.

In the areas of Kharkiv and Valuykov, units from the defense forces are continuing to conduct defensive battles, stopped the enemy, and entrenched themselves along a certain line.