The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: since the beginning of the day, there have been more than 100 battles at the front, almost half of them in the Kursk direction

Since the beginning of the day, 103 combat clashes have taken place on the front, the Russian troops are attacking the Kursk direction the most, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

In Kurshchyna, Ukrainian defenders are repelling 18 Russian attacks, a total of 47 clashes have been recorded so far.

According to the headquarters, high activity of the enemy is currently maintained in the Pokrovsky direction – ten times today clashes of varying intensity have started. Near the settlements of Sukha Balka, Myrolyubivka, Promin, Lysivka, Dachenske, Solone and Novovasylivka, the Ukrainian military repelled nine attacks.

Also in the Vremivsk direction, Russian invaders attacked 10 times in Uspenivka, Kostiantynopolsky, Blagodatny, Neskuchny and Novodarivka districts

The General Staff notes that in the Kurakhiv direction near Sontsivka, Stary Terny, Andriivka, Kurakhovo and Dachnoy, Ukrainian troops repelled three assaults, five more clashes are ongoing.

In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy tried to advance to Ukrainian positions in the area of ​​Lozova and Kolisnikivka four times during the day, three attacks were successfully repelled, and one battle is ongoing. On the Lymansky and Siversky directions, there were seven clashes each near Tverdokhlibovo, Zeleny Gay, Terni, in Serebryansky forest, Bilogorivka, Hryhorivka, and Verkhnyokamyansky.

In the Toretsk direction, the Russian army tried to advance eight times in the Toretsk and Shcherbynivka districts – three attacks were successfully repelled by the Armed Forces, and five clashes are ongoing.

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.