During the day, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out 10 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment and 12 strikes on the positions of the enemy's anti-aircraft missile systems. This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
Russian troops are concentrating their efforts to conduct offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdiiv directions. The occupiers are also trying to improve the tactical situation in the Kupyan and Lyman directions.
During the day, the enemy carried out 10 air and 4 missile strikes on civilian objects in Andriyivka, Vovchansk, Soledar, and also carried out about 20 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the civilian infrastructure of the city of Kherson.
In the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions, the enemy shelled 15 settlements with tanks and the entire range of artillery, including Hryanikyvka, Kislivka, Kotlyarivka, Krokhmalne, and Berestov in the Kharkiv region; Makiivka, Maidanchyk, Nevske, Krasnopopivka and Dibrova of Luhansk region. The Russian occupiers struck with the forces of operational-tactical and army aviation in the areas of the settlements of Novoselivske and Maidanchyk.
In the Bakhmut and Avdiiv directions, the enemy continues to conduct offensive actions, fired tanks and all types of artillery at the positions of our troops in the areas of 24 settlements. Among them are Andriivka, Belogorivka, Luhansk region; Spirne, Soledar, Bakhmut, Stupochki, Vodyane, Nevelske, Maryinka and Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk region. The enemy attacked with operational-tactical and army aviation in Andriivka, Belogorivka, Spirn, Severny, New York, Kamianka, Avdiivka, Nevelske districts.
The enemy continues to suffer losses. On December 18, it was confirmed that the units of the defense forces of Ukraine defeated the areas where the enemy's manpower and equipment were concentrated in the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhya region. In particular, in the areas of the settlements of Pology, Vasylivka and Kamianka-Dniprovska. The losses of the enemy amount to more than 130 wounded soldiers, up to 10 units of weapons and military equipment of various types were destroyed. Information about the dead invaders is being clarified.
The enemy continues to use the network of civilian health care facilities in the temporarily occupied territory to treat wounded Russian occupiers and mercenaries of private military campaigns. Thus, according to the available information, the Luhansk City Multidisciplinary Hospital has been converted into a military hospital of the Russian occupying forces, which is already overloaded with wounded occupiers.
Units of missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine during the current day struck an ammunition warehouse, 3 control points and 8 areas of concentration of enemy manpower.
