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| Operational summary of the Ukrainian General Staff on the evening of Saturday, September 17 |
| 2022-09-18 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Vesti] The enemy continues to focus on organizing defense and holding the occupied territories , trying to completely occupy the Donetsk region , as well as disrupting the active operations of the Defense Forces in certain areas. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff as of 18.00 Saturday, September 17. Over the current day , the enemy launched four missile and 15 air strikes, carried out more than 20 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on military and civilian targets on the territory of Ukraine. The infrastructure of more than 30 settlements suffered , in particular, Kharkiv, Seversk, Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka, New York, Maryinka, Krasnogorovka, Poltavka, Krivoy Rog, Zaporozhye, Nikopol, Orekhov, Mirolyubovka and Ochakov. The threat of air and missile strikes throughout Ukraine remains. In the Volyn and Polesye directions, the situation has not changed significantly. In other directions, the enemy fired from tanks, mortars and artillery, namely: in the Seversky direction - in the areas of the settlements of Bleshnya, Chernihiv region and Khleborob and Kondratovka, Sumy region; In connection with the successful actions of the Defense Forces to disable all crossings across the Dnieper in the Kherson direction, the invaders are preparing retreat routes for themselves . In the area of ​​the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric station, in order to build a crossing in the future, they flooded nine wagons. At the same time, the occupying authorities continue to force local entrepreneurs to make payments in Russian rubles, conduct weekly inspections and threaten to "nationalize", that is, take away the business in case of refusal to cooperate with the occupiers. Over the current day , units of the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmut, Zaitsevo, Pervomayskoye, Nikolaevka Second and Novomikhailovka . More than 180 Russian troops have been confirmed killed in Kherson . The blow was struck on September 10 at the building of Alkoservis LLC, where the personnel and military equipment of the enemy were located. For five days, units of the Russian Guard and the FSB cleared the rubble and took out the bodies of the dead, trying to hide the losses. During the day , the aircraft of the Defense Forces attacked ten areas of concentration of enemy manpower and equipment and three positions of anti-aircraft missile systems. The losses of the enemy are specified. In addition, Ukrainian air defense units shot down one enemy UAV. Rocket troops and artillery inflicted a fire defeat on the enemy command post and ammunition composition. |
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