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Ukrainian General Staff: 195 attacks on our forces
2026-05-17
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
On the Dnieper direct, our defencists successfully launched two assault operations in the direction of Antonivka, reports the established General Staff.

The ZSU General Staff published operational information ahead of the Russian invasion of the country at 22:00 on Saturday 16 May.

In total, 195 battlefields were recorded.

The defense forces will continue to chew the enemy’s forces, acquire a special warehouse and harness the combat potential of the occupiers, a highly systematic fire suppression.

The enemy launched 51 air strikes and dropped 182 air bombs. In addition, having received 5768 kamikaze drones for attack and carried out 2226 shelling of populated areas and positions of our troops.

On the Pivnichno-Slobozhansky and Kursk direct routes there were 16 battles, the enemy launched five air strikes, laid down ten ceramic bombs, carried out 80 shelling of populated areas and the positions of our troops, including some - due to the stagnation of multiple launch rocket systems.

On the Pivdenno-Slobozhansky direct line, the enemy stormed the positions of our fighters five times near the settlements of Vovchansk, Radkivka, Hraniv, Izbytska and Staritsa. One fear is troubling.

On Kup'yansky, our soldiers launched two direct assaults in the areas of the settlements of Novoosinovo and Podol.

On the Limansky direct, Ukrainian soldiers tried to penetrate the fire pits in the areas of the settlements of Stepov, Novy Mir, Stavka, Drobishev, Yampil and Ozerne.

On the Slovyansky direct, the Defense Forces successfully repelled three attempts by fire fighters to push forward near the settlements of Zakytne and Rai-Oleksandrivka.

On Kramatorsk, our soldiers directly launched one hegemony attack in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Nikiforivka.

The defense forces successfully defeated eleven hostile assaults on the Kostyantynivsky direct near Kostyantynivka, Ivanopill, Illinivka and Stepanivka.

On Pokrovsky the enemy launched 23 attacks directly. The occupiers began to push into the areas of the settlements of Vilna, Kucheriv Yar, Zolotyi Kolodyaz, Nowa Shakhov, Bilitska, Grishin, Vasylivka, Novomykolayivka, Rodinske, Novooleksandrivka, Boykivka, Sergiivka and Molodetsk.

Behind the front lines, today 46 occupiers were liquidated and 14 were injured; 11 units of automobiles and 8 units of special military equipment, one radio-electronic warfare station and one lust shelter were reduced; Three units of automotive equipment, three components and five control points for unmanned aerial vehicles were damaged. 250 unmanned lethal vehicles of various types have been reduced or suppressed.

On Oleksandrivsky and Orikhivsky, the enemy is directly fighting today without carrying out offensive actions.

On the Gulyaypilskoe direct there were seventeen attacks by occupiers near the settlements of Dobropillya, Verkhnya Tersa, Zlagoda, Girke, Krynychne, Staroukrainka, Gulyaypilske and Charivne.

On the Dnieper direct, our defencists successfully launched two assault operations in the Antonivka direct.
Posted by:badanov

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