Over the past day, December 16, 245 combat clashes took place at the front. In particular, in the Pokrovsk Axis, Ukrainian defenders repelled 52 russian attacks. At the same time, the enemy stormed Ukrainian positions in the Kursk Oblast 68 times.
This is stated in the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Thus, in total, the enemy carried out 24 air strikes on the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements, dropping 30 guided bombs. In addition, it carried out more than 4,200 shellings, 141 of them from MLRS, and used 2,202 kamikaze drones to strike.
Meanwhile, the missile troops of the Defense Forces struck five areas of concentration of personnel and another important object of the russian invaders.
In the Kharkiv Axis, the enemy carried out offensive actions three times in the areas of Hlyboke and Kozacha Lopan.
The number of combat clashes per day in the Kupyansk Axis reached four. The Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of Kucherivka, Zahryzove, Lozova and Petropavlivka.
In the Lyman Axis, our troops stopped 16 enemy attacks. The invaders concentrated their main efforts in the areas of the settlements of Kopanky, Vyshneve, Novoyehorivka, Terny, Hryhorivka, Novoplatonivka, Novoserhiyivka, Makiyivka, Terny in the Serebriansk forest, and in the direction of Cherneshchyna.
In the Siversk Axis, the enemy attacked 16 times in the areas of Bilohorivka, Verkhniokamyanske, Ivano-Daryne, Spirne and Siversk. Four combat clashes are still ongoing.
Eight attempts by the invaders to advance near Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Chasiv Yar and Stupochky were stopped by Ukrainian soldiers in the Kramatorsk Axis.
In the Toretsk Axis, the enemy tried to advance 12 times in the areas of Toretsk and Shcherbynivka.
Fifty-two attacks over the past day were repelled by our defenders in the Pokrovsk Axis. The enemy troops are most active near the settlements of Lysivka, Dachenske, Novyi Trud, Zelene, Novoolenivka, Pishchane and Ukrainka.
The Defense Forces continue to restrain the enemy in the Kurakhove Axis. In the areas of the settlements of Sontsivka, Stari Terny, Kurakhove and Yantarne, the invaders tried to break through the Ukrainian defense lines 30 times.
Twenty-two enemy attacks were stopped by our defenders in the direction of Kostiantynopolske, Rozdolne, Novyi Komar, Neskuchne, Uspenivka, Sukhi Yaly, Blahodatny, Makarivka and Novodarivka in the Vremivka Axis.
In the Orikhiv Axis, the enemy attacked five times in the area of Novoandriivka.
Four unsuccessful attempts to capture the positions of our defenders over the past day were made by the enemy in the Prydniprovskyi Axis.
The operational situation in the Volyn and Polissia Axes has not changed significantly. No signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups have been detected.
On the border with the Chernihiv and Sumy Regions, the enemy maintains a military presence, conducts reconnaissance activities and artillery shelling.
At the same time, the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to conduct operations in the Kursk Oblast, where over the past 24 hours the enemy has carried out 68 assaults on the positions of Ukrainian units, carried out six airstrikes, dropped 12 anti-aircraft missiles, and carried out 341 shelling of the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements.
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