There were 47 combat contacts in the Pokrovsk direction.
Ukrainian Defense Forces fighters
As of 22:00 16. Ukrainian defenders continue to decisively repel the enemy's attempts to advance deep into our territory, inflicting fire damage on them. The greatest number of battles took place in the Pokrovsk and Kursk directions.
This was reported by the press service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Russian terrorists launched one missile and 30 air strikes, using one missile and dropping 47 guided air bombs. In addition, the enemy used 882 kamikaze drones and carried out more than 4,300 attacks on our troop positions and populated areas.
Today, the enemy did not conduct any active operations in the Kharkiv direction.
In the Kupyansk direction, the aggressor attacked near Petrovpavlovka, Golubovka, Dvuhletnyy, Zagryzovoye and Peschanoye. Five combat clashes have been completed, one enemy attack is still ongoing.
In the Liman direction, Russian invaders stormed the positions of the Defense Forces near the settlements of Kopanki, Novosergeevka, Grekovka, Zelenaya Roshcha, Makeyevka, Torskoye, Novoplatonovka, Terny and Zarechnoye. Ukrainian defenders stopped 11 enemy attacks, two combat clashes are still ongoing.
Severskydirection: the enemy stormed our positions near Verkhnekamenskoye and Belogorovka five times, currently there is one combat clash near Ivano-Daryevka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the invaders attacked seven times in the areas of Privilegiya, Belaya Gora, Grigoryevka and Vremenny Yar, all attempts by the invaders to advance were stopped by Ukrainian soldiers.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out 12 assault actions. The invaders stormed the positions of Ukrainian units near Krymskoye, Leonidovka, Toretskaya and Shcherbinovka.
Pokrovskdirection: since the beginning of the day, the enemy has attacked 47 times in the areas of the settlements of Zelenoe Pole, Elizavetovka, Mirolyubovka, Luch, Lisovka, Novy Trud, Pokrovsk, Shevchenko, Zverevoye, Kotlino, Uspenovka, Udachnoye, Slavyanka, Petrovpavlovka, Andreyevka, Kurakhovo, Dachnoye and Yantarnoye. Nine combat clashes are still ongoing.
According to currently available data, enemy losses in this direction today amounted to 300 servicemen killed and wounded, four vehicles were destroyed, in addition, an enemy tank, a mortar and one enemy vehicle were significantly damaged.
At NovopavlovskoyeIn the direction, the invaders attacked ten times near Constantinople, Velyka Novosilka and Vremovka. Five attacks by the occupiers have already been repelled. The fighting continues. The enemy carried out air strikes with guided bombs on the areas of the settlements of Novopol and Constantinople.
In the Gulyai-Polye direction, our troops repelled two enemy attacks near Novosilka and Temirovka, the enemy was not successful.
In the Orikhov direction, the enemy unsuccessfully attacked the settlement of Novodanilovka.
In the Prydniprovsk direction, the Defense Forces of Ukraine stopped four enemy assaults.
In the Kursk direction, our defenders repelled 13 enemy attacks, another six combat clashes are still ongoing.
There were no significant changes in other directions of the front.
Today it is worth noting the soldiers of the 425th separate assault battalion “Skala”, the 54th separate mechanized brigade named after Hetman Ivan Mazepa, the 13th operational brigade of the NGU “Charter”, the 102nd separate brigade, the 126th separate territorial defense brigade, who are effectively destroying the enemy, inflicting significant losses in manpower and equipment.
