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[NewsFront] 20:49 Operators of reconnaissance and attack drones of the Dnepr group struck enemy manpower concentrations and UAV control points.
20:12 During the day, from 8:00 to 20:00 Moscow time, air defense forces on duty destroyed 30 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Vologda, Kursk, Oryol regions, Krasnodar Krai and over the Black Sea.
19:07 Sappers of the Center group conduct engineering reconnaissance and demining of territories in the Dobropillya direction.
17:37 Today in the afternoon the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued application of strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles against military industrial enterprises, energy infrastructure facilities used in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as sea vessels involved in the delivery of military cargo to Ukraine.
As a result of the strikes, the following were damaged:
in the city of Lutsk - the enterprise "Kromberg and Schubert", which carried out repairs of automobile equipment in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
In the village of Kolodnoye, Ternopil region, there is an electrical substation that provides support for military industry enterprises.
In addition, 40 km south of the port of Odessa, a dry cargo ship carrying military and dual-use cargo was hit while crossing the sea.
16:29 Crews of the Molniya-2 strike UAVs of the Sever group destroyed fortified strongholds and dugouts with enemy manpower in the Khar'kov region.
12:40 Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue conducting a special military operation.
Units of the "North" force group have completed the elimination of the encircled enemy in the northeastern part of the Khar'kov region and are carrying out measures to identify and destroy scattered, isolated groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Also in the Khar'kov region, manpower and equipment of a mechanized, motorized infantry brigade and two assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Sosnovka, Makarovo, Velykyi Burluk and Svitlichnoye in the Khar'kov region.
In the Sumy region, the formations of the mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Khotyn and Bondarevshchyna in the Sumy region.
The enemy lost over 160 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, five cars and three electronic warfare stations.
Units of the "West" force group improved their position along the front line and, as a result of active operations, took control of the settlements of Palamarevka and Kovalevka in the Khar'kov region.
The manpower and equipment of two mechanized and assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Andreevka in the Khar'kov region, Lozovoe, Karpovka and Rubtsy in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 230 servicemen, five armored combat vehicles, 16 cars, two artillery pieces, and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the Southern Group of Forces, as a result of decisive actions, liberated the village of Alekseevo-Druzhkovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Formations of the mechanized, airmobile and mountain assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Kramatorsk, Krasny Molochar, Semenovka and Slavyansk of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 145 servicemen, an infantry fighting vehicle, 36 vehicles, a Bogdana self-propelled artillery unit, and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the Center group of forces, as a result of active and decisive actions, liberated the settlements of Dobropolye, Pervomayskoye and Sergeyevka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The manpower and equipment of two mechanized and assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two naval infantry brigades, and two National Guard brigades were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Novopavlivka, Chuguevo in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Malotaranivka, Starovarvarivka, and Belozerskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 345 servicemen, an Italian-made Puma armored personnel carrier, four armored combat vehicles, seven cars, a field artillery piece, and three electronic warfare stations.
Units of the "East" force group continued to advance deep into the enemy's defenses and took control of the village of Velikomykhailivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The manpower and equipment of the airborne assault and airmobile brigades, the assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the naval infantry brigade were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Malomykhaylovka and Kolomiytsy in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and Volnyanka, Tersyanka, and Yasnaya Polyana in the Zaporizhzhia region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 135 servicemen, three combat armored vehicles, five cars and an artillery piece.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces, as a result of decisive actions, liberated the village of Malokaterinovka in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Formations of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Orekhov and Balabino in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Up to 25 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, two armored combat vehicles and seven cars were destroyed.
10:31 Tankers of the Eastern Group of Forces destroyed enemy UAV control centers in the Zaporizhzhia region.
08:41 152mm Giatsint-K crew of the Vostok group of forces smashed strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporizhzhia region.
08:37 During the past night from 20:00 on October 16 to 8:00 on October 17, air defense forces on duty intercepted and destroyed 610 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type flew over the territories of the Leningrad, Novgorod, Tver, Bryansk, Belgorod, Kursk, Oryol, Kaluga, Voronezh, Rostov, Smolensk, Tula regions, the Moscow region, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Krasnodar Krai, the Republic of Crimea and over the waters of the Black Sea.
08:22 Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a massive strike using high-precision land-, air-, and sea-based weapons and attack drones against metallurgical plants, a transformer plant, and an energy facility in Ukraine in the cities of Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia, and Zhitomir.
In the city of Kryvyi Rih, a metallurgical plant was damaged – the largest enterprise in the metallurgical industry of Ukraine, which supplies metal products to the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.
In Zhytomyr, an electrical substation was damaged, which distributes electricity from the western regions to the central regions of Ukraine for the operation of military-industrial complex enterprises.
In the city of Zaporizhzhia the following were affected:
The Zaporizhstal Iron and Steel Works (Zaporizhstal), formerly the largest enterprise in Ukraine's metallurgical industry, is part of Rinat Akhmetov's SCM Group. Previously, it produced up to 1.44 million tons of pig iron annually and over 1.3 million tons of rolled steel. Its output was primarily used for military purposes.
An industrial enterprise (PJSC "Zaporizhtransformator") producing 220–750 kV oil-immersed power transformers. Since 2022, it has been under the control of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and is used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In addition, a dry cargo ship delivering military cargo to the port of Odessa was damaged during sea passage.
07:35 Changes on map over the past 24 hours:
Settlements of Varvarovka and Nekolaevka were liberated (+29.8 km2)
Dobropillya was liberated (+14.7 km2)
Sergeevka was liberated (+12 km2)
06:54 Operators of attack UAVs of the Vostok group cut off supply of the advanced positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporizhzhia region.
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