Yesterday, January 3, russian occupation forces continued to shell the border areas of Sumy and Chernihiv regions.

The enemy inflicted a fire defeat with the use of barrel artillery and mortars. Znob-Novhorodske and Seredyna-Buda communities of Sumy region as well as Novhorod-Siverskyi and Semenivka communities of Chernihiv region found themselves under the enemy fire.

Semenivka community was shelled by the enemy from the settlements of sushany and kurkovychi with artillery - 19 explosions, and mortars - 8 explosions were recorded.

Along the border area of Novgorod-Siverskyi community, the enemy fired mortars from the village of sluchevsk - 6 explosions.

Seredyna-Buda territorial community was under enemy mortar fire conducted from the area of the village of grudska - 4 explosions.

Along the border area of Znob-Novhorodske community, the russians twice aimed mortars - 6 arrivals were recorded from the area of the settlements of znob and bila berizka.

The components of the Defense Forces continue to defend Ukraine from russian invaders.