“Since the beginning of the day on December 16, 226 combat clashes took place at the front. In the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, the Russians stormed 72 times. Source: summary of the General Staff as of 10:00 p.m. on December 16 Verbatim: “The Russian invaders carried out 24 airstrikes on the territory of Ukraine, using 30 anti-aircraft missiles.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Since the beginning of the day on December 16, 226 combat clashes took place at the front. In the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, the Russians stormed 72 times.
Source: summary of the General Staff as of 22:00 on December 16
Literally: “The Russian invaders carried out 24 airstrikes on the territory of Ukraine, using 30 anti-aircraft missiles. In addition, the Russians engaged 570 kamikaze drones and carried out more than 3,700 attacks on the positions of our troops and populated areas.”
Details: In the Kharkiv direction the Russian occupiers did not carry out offensive actions.
On the Kupyansk direction the enemy three times stormed the positions of our defenders in the areas of Kucherivka, Zagryzovo, and Lozova.
On the Lymansky direction since the beginning of the day, Russian invaders have attacked Ukrainian positions 15 times near the settlements of Kopanka, Vyshneve, Novoehorivka, Terny, Hryhorivka, Novoplatonivka, Novosergiivka, Makiivka, Terny, in Serebryansky Forest, and in the direction of Cherneshchyna.
On the Seversky direction during the day, the enemy attacked seven times in the areas of Bilogorivka, Verkhnyokamyansky, Ivano-Daryno, Spirn and Siversk.
On the Kramatorsk direction so far, six skirmishes have been recorded near Orihovo-Vasylivka, Chasovoy Yar and Stupochky, which our soldiers successfully repelled.
On the Toretsky direction the Russians attacked the positions of the defense forces 11 times.
From the beginning of this dayin the Pokrovsky directionthe Russians tried 46 times to break through our defenses near the settlements of Lysivka, Dachenske, Novy Trud, Zelene, Novoolenivka, Pischane and Ukrainka.
In the direction of Kurakhiv the enemy attacked our positions near the settlements of Sontsivka, Stari Terny, Kurakhove and Yantarne 29 times, ten skirmishes are ongoing.
In the direction of Vremivsk the invaders carried out 22 offensive actions near Kostiantynopolsky, Rozdolny, Novy Komar, Neskuchny, Uspenivka, Suhy Yali, Blagodatny, Makarivka, and Novodarivka.
On the Orihiv directions the enemy attacked four times in the Novoandriivka area.
In the Dnieper direction our troops repelled three enemy attacks.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine continue the operation in Kurshchynawhere the enemy carried out 72 assaults on the positions of Ukrainian units during the day, five clashes are still ongoing. The enemy carried out 6 airstrikes by 12 anti-aircraft missiles, carried out 293 attacks.