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| In the Avdiyiv direction, the defenders repelled more than 30 attacks per day |
| 2024-01-18 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [LB] The Russians are trying to surround Avdiivka. by Iryna Lysohor In the Avdiivka direction, the defenders continue to restrain the enemy, who seeks to surround Avdiivka. The defenders repelled 20 enemy attacks in the districts of Novobakhmutivka, Stepovoy, Avdiivka and another 15 attacks in the districts of Pervomaiskyi and Nevelskyi. In the Mariinsky direction, defenders continue to hold back the enemy in the areas of Krasnohorivka, Georgiivka, Maryinka, and Novomykhailivka. There, 17 attacks were repelled, the spokesman of the General Staff, Andriy Kovalev, said on the air of the telethon. "On the Kherson direction, the Defense Forces of Ukraine continue to expand the bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region. Despite significant losses, the enemy does not stop trying to knock our units out of their positions. Over the past day, the enemy has carried out six unsuccessful assaults on the positions of our troops, at the same time, our soldiers continue to actively inflict casualties on the occupying forces in manpower and equipment," he said. In Zaporizhzhia, the Defense Forces repelled the attack of the occupiers west of Vervovoy. On Lymanskyi, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 11 enemy attacks in Terniv, Yampolivka, and Torsky districts of Donetsk region and another 17 attacks in Makiivka, Bilogorivka, and Serebryansky forestry districts of Luhansk region and to the north of Hryhorivka, Vesely, Donetsk region. On Bakhmutskyi, our soldiers repelled nine enemy attacks in the Ivanivskyi, Klishchiivka and Andriivka districts of the Donetsk region. In total, during the day there were 98 combat clashes, the occupiers launched four missile and 29 air strikes, carried out 49 attacks from rocket salvo systems. At night, the Russians struck the center of Kharkiv, as a result of which 17 people were injured. The Russians hit the civilian infrastructure in the center of the city. Odesa was also attacked. |
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