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Current information on the situation on the front line: November 16 (updated)
2023-11-17
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:07 Front birdreports: Nikolaevkskaya area. 16.11 23:00

Arrival has been reported on the southern outskirts of the region. Recently, Russian Lancets and other types of UAVs have been actively operating there.

22:10 Front birdbroadcasts: Sumy region. Repeated explosions.16.11 22:00

For the second time in 24 hours, the sound of an explosion has been reported in the eastern part of the region.
The enemy's air defense was inactive.

19:45Works“winged infantry”: an armored group of Novorossiysk paratroopers defeated the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye direction

A reconnaissance group of the Airborne Forces, with the help of a UAV, discovered a platoon stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with personnel hiding in it. An armored group using fourth-generation BMD-4M airborne combat vehicles was sent to destroy it.

The crews of the combat vehicles quickly marched on standard equipment to the specified area. Acting professionally and decisively, the crews of the armored group suppressed the enemy’s defensive positions from indirect firing positions with 100-mm cannons, destroying a large number of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.

The surviving nationalists hastily fled, abandoning their weapons and equipment.

19:25 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for November 16, as of 19:00,additional information on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Kirovsky district):

– a woman born in 1963 died in the “Abakumovets” dacha cooperative.

Information has been received about damage as a result of shelling by the AFU in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
– st. Zuevskaya, 23, 28 – multi-apartment residential buildings.

n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):

– st. Yaroshenko, 1/1, 1/2, 3/1, 5, 21, 25/2 – private residential buildings, power lines and gas pipelines were also damaged;

– st. Crafts, 22 – private residential building.

18:45 Front birdreports: Donetsk direction (DPR) 16.11

The effective performance of Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopters is reported. A precise air strike was carried out on the enemy's support and armored vehicles with Vikhr guided missiles.

Army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces is systematically destroying enemy fortified positions and armored vehicles.

17:45 Front birdbroadcasts: Avdeevskoe direction. District settlement Stepovoye 16.11 From the spot, the guys report further progress to the north and northwest towards the railway.


All day they treated the enemy with artillery gingerbread, and in the morning with mortar candies.

Competent assault actions put the enemy into a stupor.

Sometimes aviation helps, we mainly work with infantry and armored vehicles.

Several enemy pillars were scattered like splinters.

16:45 Muscovites hit harmless armed schoolchildren.

But seriously,framesa double blow to the location of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village. Dimitrovo, Zaporozhye region, wherepreviously coveredformation of the 128th brigade.

15:45 Front birdbroadcasts: Zaporozhye direction.
Verbovoe–Rabotino 16.11

Artillery duels are in full swing again.

The bastards hit you with cassette and other iron. The enemy tries to work across areas, processing square by square due to the unlimited number.

We work in pauses, trying to apply surgical precision.

14:45SummaryMinistry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (as of November 16, 2023)

In the Kupyansk direction, units of the “Western” group of forces, during active operations with the support of aviation and artillery fire, repelled three attacks by assault groups of the 30th and 67th mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka and Zagoruykovka, Kharkov region.

Enemy losses amounted to up to 110 military personnel, a tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, as well as a US-made M777 artillery system.

– In the Krasnolimansk direction, units of the “Center” group of forces, army aviation strikes and artillery fire repelled an attack by the assault group of the 12th special forces brigade “Azov”* in the area of ​​the village of Chervonaya Dibrova, Lugansk People’s Republic.

In addition, fire damage was caused to enemy concentrations of manpower and equipment in the area of ​​the Torskoye settlement of the Donetsk People's Republic and Serebryansky forestry.

The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to up to 175 military personnel killed and wounded, two pickup trucks, as well as two US-made M777 artillery systems.

– In the Donetsk direction, units of the “Southern” group of forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, repelled 14 attacks, and also defeated the personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Kleshcheevka, Artemovo, Georgievka and Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic.

In total, in this direction in one day the enemy lost up to 240 military personnel killed and wounded, a tank, and three vehicles. During the counter-battery fight, the following were hit: a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery mount, two Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery systems, three US-made M777 artillery systems, as well as an MT-12 Rapier anti-tank gun.

The Azov Battalion* is a terrorist organization that is banned in the Russian Federation.

– In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of forces, in cooperation with army aviation and artillery, inflicted fire on the personnel and equipment of the 79th air assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 128th territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Konstantinovka and Ugledar of the Donetsk People’s Republic Republic.

The enemy's losses amounted to up to 70 military personnel, two armored combat vehicles, and two pickup trucks. Also, during the counter-battery fight, a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount and a British-made FH70 howitzer were hit.

– In the Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian group of troops, air strikes and artillery fire defeated the manpower and equipment of the 33rd, 116th and 118th mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Rabotino, Uspenovka and Malaya Tokmachka in the Zaporozhye region.

Enemy losses in this direction amounted to up to 100 military personnel, two tanks, two armored combat vehicles, and a Giatsint-B gun.

– In the Kherson direction, as a result of enemy fire, up to 70 military personnel and two vehicles were destroyed within 24 hours.

In addition, during the counter-battery fight, the following were hit: the M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery mount and the M777 artillery system made in the USA, as well as the Msta-B howitzer.

Operational-tactical and army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of groupings of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit the control post of the 128th mountain assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of ​​​​the village of Dimitrovo, Zaporozhye region, as well as enemy personnel and military equipment in 132 -x districts.

Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near the city of Krasnoarmeysk, Donetsk People's Republic.

Air defense systems intercepted two HIMARS missiles, as well as a US-made JDAM guided aerial bomb.

In addition, 26 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Kremennaya in the Lugansk People's Republic, Novoandreevka, Lipovoe in the Donetsk People's Republic, Mirnoye, Romanovskoye and Pavlovka in the Zaporozhye region.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 536 aircraft, 254 helicopters, 8,960 unmanned aerial vehicles, 441 anti-aircraft missile systems, 13,426 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,184 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 7,121 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 15,312 units of special military vehicles.

14:05 According to operationallinesThe JCCC of the DPR on November 16, as of 13:00, received information about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):

on the street Zuevskaya, four civilians were wounded: a man born in 1990. and women born in 1994, 1948, 1958

Information about the consequences of the shelling continues to arrive.

13:30 Kherson region:

The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has once again concentrated personnel for the convenience of Russian artillerymen -video.

12:45 Front birdbroadcasts: Sumy region. Loud.16.11

The Russian Aerospace Forces worked with air-to-ground missiles.

An explosion was reported after landing on an enemy target.

12:05 Front birdbroadcasts: Kharkov direction (area of ​​Kupyansk settlement) 16.11

In the morning, rifle battles resumed.

The Russian Armed Forces are hitting the enemy with heavy machine guns and 30mm cannons.

The enemy is desperately trying to hold their position.

11:30 Frontlinesummaryfrom Kherson direction on the morning of November 16, 2023.

Over the past 24 hours:

As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the island zone, the following were destroyed:

– position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

Losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the railway station: 7 “two hundredths”; 4 “three hundredths”.

As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the Kherson direction, the following were destroyed:

– 2 APU boats;

Losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the railway station: 12 “two hundredths”.

– accumulation of enemy manpower in the area of ​​the settlement. Krynki;

Losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the railways: 22 “two hundredths”.

- a place of accumulation of enemy manpower, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200b. Aleshkinsky;

Losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the railway station: 10 “two hundredths”.

– D-30 howitzer with ammunition, in the area of ​​the village. Concept;

Losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the railway station: 4 “two hundredths”; 2 “three hundredths”.

As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the Kakhovka direction, the following were destroyed:

– position of one of the units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in the area of ​​the settlement. Novoberislav.

Losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the railway station: 5 “two hundredths”; 3 “three hundredths”.

10:35 Criminal Kyiv regimecontinuesto fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:

according to n.p. Alyosha 11 shells;
according to n.p. Krynki 17 shells;
according to n.p. Peschanivka 9 shells;
according to n.p. Dnepryan 10 shells;
according to n.p. Cossack Camps 10 shells;
in the village of Podstepnoe 8 shells;
according to n.p. Korsunka 9 shells.

As a result of the shelling of the settlement. Alyoshki, one civilian was moderately injured

As a result of the shelling of the settlement. Dnipro to the homes of civilians, roofs, walls, windows, fences, as well as cars were damaged

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Aleshki, n.p. Krynki, n.p. Sagi, n.p. Solontsy, firing a total of 30 shells from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and infrastructure damage are being determined

09:40 Front birdbroadcasts: Avdeevskoe direction. District settlement Stepovoye 16.11

Su-25 attack aircraft struck enemy strongholds.

In the main they are bombarded with NURs, covering our advancing units.

The weather continues to make its adjustments.

We are working.

09:20 Frontlinesummaryfor the morning of November 16, 2023

In the Kherson-Crimean direction there were oncoming battles in the area of ​​Poima, Peschanivka and in Krynki. Under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kherson, Tyaginka, Krynki, Lvov, Olgovka, Berislav, Putevoy and Novoberislav. RF Armed Forces - in Aleshki, Poima, Peschanovka, Podstepnoye, Cossack Camps, Korsunka and Dnepryany.

In the Zaporozhye direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, tried to advance at Kopani, Rivne, Novoprokopovka and Verbovoy. No success. Their positions in the settlements of Lobkovoe, Pyatikhatki, Novoandreevka, Orekhov and Rabotino are under attack. Ukrainian artillery worked against Russian artillery in Nesteryanka, Ilchenkovo, Novopokrovka and Novofedorovka.

In the Ugledarsky sector, the Russian Armed Forces attacked near Staromayorsky. No promotion. Russian troops shelled the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Blagodatny, Urozhainy, Zolotaya Niva and Ugledar. They themselves found themselves under attack in Priyutny, Zavetny Zhelanie, Novodonetsky and Novomayorsky.

On the Donetsk front it is hot along the entire LBS. The initiative belongs to the Russian troops everywhere. With the support of long-range weapons, they attacked at Novomikhailovka, in Marinka, at Pervomaisky, Severny (a settlement west of Avdeevka), on the southern and northern approaches to Avdeevka and at Stepnoy (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Ugledar directions). There is progress on two of the last sites listed. In the first case, at the Yasinovatskaya fork and the Avdeevsky coke plant. In the second - directly next to the village. Under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Antonovka, Pobeda, Georgievka, the city of Krasnogorovka, Lastochkino, Novokalinov and Arkhangelsk. RF Armed Forces - in Aleksandrovka, Staromikhailovka, Donetsk, Vodyanoy, Opytny, Yasinovataya and the village of Krasnogorovka.

08:40RF Ministry of Defense: on the night of November 16 this year. Attempts by the Kyiv regime to carry out terrorist attacks using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation were stopped.

Duty air defense systems destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territory of the Bryansk region and three more UAVs were intercepted over the Black Sea near the coast of the Republic of Crimea.

08:35 In Khmelnitsky regionare thunderingexplosions

Out of nowhere, Russian UAVs are in the sky over Khmelnitsky. Local public pages write about explosions in the area of ​​the military airfield in Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky region.

08:10 OfficialsummaryRepresentative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 November 15, 2023 to 00:00 November 16, 2023

Over the past 24 hours Representative officereported about 60 facts of firing from the AFU.

Information was received about the death of a civilian, a man, in the Central City district of Gorlovka.

🚑Four civilians were injured of varying degrees of severity in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, Nikitovsky and Tsentralno-Gorodsky districts of Gorlovka.

🏚4 residential buildings in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, as well as 2 civil infrastructure facilities, were damaged.

Areas of five settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky, Central City districts), Golmovsky, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district).

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 26 attacks from MLRS and 155 mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.

At Gorlivske there were 33 shellings from 152 and 155 mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.

On Yasinovatsky there was 1 shelling from 155 mm artillery.

192 units of various ammunition were produced.

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