“At the front since the beginning of the day, 183 combat clashes took place, in particular, in the Kursk direction, the Defense Forces repelled 42 assaults by Russian invaders. Source: summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 10:00 p.m. on December 17 Verbatim: “The Russian invaders launched one missile attack on the territory of Ukraine using four missiles, 40 airstrikes, and dropped 53 guided aerial bombs.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
At the front since the beginning of the day, 183 combat clashes took place, in particular, in the Kursk direction, the Defense Forces repelled 42 assaults by Russian invaders.
Source: summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces as of 22:00 on December 17
Literally: “The Russian invaders carried out one missile attack on the territory of Ukraine using four missiles, 40 airstrikes, dropped 53 guided aerial bombs. In addition, they engaged 632 kamikaze drones and carried out more than three and a half thousand attacks on the positions of our troops and populated areas.” .
Details: In the Kharkiv direction the enemy stormed the positions of our units in the Vovchansk region, the Defense Forces successfully repelled the invaders’ attempt to advance.
On the Kupyansk direction the enemy carried out three offensive operations near Petropavlivka and Lozova.
With the support of aviation in the Lyman direction Russian invaders 21 times stormed the positions of the Defense Forces near Green Grove, Terni, Novoehorivka, Makiivka, and Serebryansky Forest. So far, three clashes are ongoing.
On the Seversky direction the enemy attacked the settlements of Hryhorivka, Belogorivka, Siversk and Verkhnyokamianske. Three of the nine military clashes are currently unfinished.
Since the beginning of the day in the Kramatorsk direction the enemy attacked in the areas of Chasovoy Yar and Stupochky, three attempts by the Russians to dislodge our defenders from their occupied positions were unsuccessful.
On the Toretsky direction seven clashes took place today. The enemy stormed the positions of Ukrainian units near Toretsk. Currently, two clashes are ongoing.
In the Pokrovsky directionsince the beginning of this day, the enemy attacked 35 times in the areas of Myrolyubivka, Promenya, Lysivka, Dachenskyi, Novy Trud, Novovasylivka, Pischany, Novoolenivka, Novopustinka, Chumatskyi, Ukrainka, Sukhoi Yar, and Novoyelyzavetivka.
In the direction of Kurakhiv the enemy made 26 attempts to break through our defense near the settlements of Sontsivka, Stari Terny, Kurakhove and Yantarne. Twenty battles have been completed, six more are still ongoing.
In the direction of Vremivsk the enemy attacked our units 22 times near Kostyantynopolskyi, Suhy Yalyi, Storozhevo, Novosilok, Temyrivka, Novopol and Novodarivka.
Three skirmishes in the districts of Novoandriivka, Orikhov and Novodanilivka were successfully repulsed by our defenders in the Orihiv direction.
With the support of army aviation, the enemy attacked our defenders twice in vain in the Dnieper direction.
In Kurshchyna The defense forces repelled 42 assaults by the Russian invaders, the enemy carried out eight airstrikes and launched more than three hundred artillery barrages.