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Ukrainian General Staff: the situation at the front remains difficult, there have been 112 skirmishes over the past day
2024-06-16
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] The tense situation remains in the Pokrovsky direction.

by Ivanna Kapustyanska


According to detailed information, over the past day, in total, the enemy launched 6 missile strikes on the positions of our troops and populated areas, using 17 missiles, 33 air strikes (in particular, dropped 56 anti-aircraft missiles), carried out more than 3,000 attacks, 104 of them from rocket salvo systems.

According to the General Staff, 112 combat clashes were recorded at the front during the day.

Over the past day, the Air Force and missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit three anti-aircraft defense facilities, an anti-aircraft control point, three artillery facilities, two ammunition depots and 15 areas of concentration of personnel and OVT of the occupiers.

As a result, last day the total losses of the Russian invaders amounted to 1090 people. The enemy also lost 20 tanks, 29 armored fighting vehicles, 37 artillery systems, two anti-aircraft guns, four air defense systems, 51 operational-tactical BpLA, seven missiles, 57 vehicles and 12 units of special equipment.

Already today, 31 combat clashes took place. The occupiers carried out 12 airstrikes with the use of 19 air defense systems, 547 shelling of the positions of our troops. Russian terrorists also used 18 kamikaze drones for the attacks.

In the Kharkiv direction, since the beginning of the day, Russian terrorists have tried to push our soldiers from their positions three times. The attack was repulsed near Tychy. Fighting continues in two locations in the Vovchansk region.

According to updated data, the enemy lost more than 112 people killed and wounded in this direction yesterday. An armored combat vehicle, ten cars, three units of special equipment and three warehouses with ammunition were also destroyed. A tank, two artillery systems, five cars and a unit of special equipment were damaged.

Five clashes are currently ongoing in the Kupian direction. In the areas of Petropavlivka, Andriivka, Grekivka and Nevske settlements, the occupiers are trying to knock our units out of their positions. The situation is under control.

In the Seversky direction, the enemy is attacking our soldiers near Rozdolivka. The battle continues. The enemy has no success.

As in the previous day, the most tense situation remains in the Pokrovsky direction. There are now three military clashes going on in the Novooleksandrivka, Yevgenivka and Novoselivka Persha districts. So many attacks have already been repelled.

The defense forces continue to make efforts to stabilize the situation, inflict complex fire damage.

In the Kurakhiv direction, five enemy attempts to penetrate our defenses near Pobyeda and Paraskoviyvka were successfully repelled.

Since the beginning of the day in the Vremivsk direction, our soldiers have been repelling an attack in the Staromayorsky district. The situation is under control. Four skirmishes near Urozhany and Vodyany have already ended. The enemy has suffered losses and is regrouping.

In the Orihiv direction, the enemy made two unsuccessful attempts to dislodge Ukrainian soldiers from their positions in the area of ​​Mala Tokmachka and Robotyny. The losses of the occupiers are being clarified.

In the rest of the directions, the situation did not undergo significant changes.

Posted by:badanov

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