“Ukrainian forces repelled 68 assaults by invaders in Kurshchyna, the General Staff announced”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
The largest number of Russian assaults, according to the given data, was in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, where the operation of Ukrainian forces is ongoing. “The enemy’s aviation continues to attack its own territory. Over the past day, Russian planes have carried out 21 airstrikes, dropping 31 anti-aircraft missiles. Ukrainian defenders repelled 68 assaults by invaders,” the General Staff said.
According to the command, Ukrainian forces repulsed 48 Russian assaults in the Pokrovsky direction in the areas of Myrolyubivka, Promin, Lysivka, Dachenske, Zelene, Novovasylivka, Chumatske and Novoolenivka.
The Defense Forces repelled 25 attacks in the Kurakhivsk direction, in Vremivsk there were also 25 assaults by Russian troops, in the Kupyansk direction the number of attacks per day was 26, and in the Lymansk – 24, the General Staff noted.
In addition, combat operations took place in the Kharkiv, Siver, Kramatorsk, Toretsk, Orihiv and Dnieper directions.
As reported by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi, as of December 17, the Defense Forces are conducting active combat operations on a section of the front with a total length of more than 1,170 kilometers, the most difficult situation now is in the Pokrovsky and Kurakhiv directions.
Sirskyi also reported on December 17 that the Russian military has been conducting “intense offensive actions” in the Kursk region for the third day, actively using units of the North Korean army.
In November, the Reuters agency, citing a high-ranking Ukrainian military source who works in the General Staff of Ukraine, reported that due to Russian counterattacks, Ukraine had lost more than 40% of the territory in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, which it captured during hostilities in August. According to the source, Russia has deployed about 59,000 troops in the Kursk region.