Ukrainian front lines face almost 200 clashes in 24 hours, over 50 on Pokrovsk front – Ukraine's General Staff
The Ukrainian defence forces have repelled almost 200 Russian assaults over the past 24 hours as Russian forces are continuing to exert pressure along the entire contact line, with over a quarter of the clashes taking place on the Pokrovsk front.
Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of the morning of 19 December
Quote: "A total of 193 combat clashes were recorded over the past day. Yesterday Russian forces launched 74 airstrikes, dropped 154 guided aerial bombs and conducted 4,281 attacks, including 126 using multiple-launch rocket systems, and deployed 5,836 kamikaze drones."
Details: On the North Slobozhanshchyna front and in the operational zone in Russia's Kursk Oblast, Ukrainian defenders repelled four Russian attacks. The Russians launched three airstrikes, dropped eight guided aerial bombs and conducted 176 shellings, including seven using multiple-launch rocket systems.
On the South Slobozhanshchyna front, Ukrainian troops stopped nine Russian attacks near the settlements of Starytsia, Prylipky and Vovchansk and towards the settlements of Okhrimivka and Dovhenke.
On the Kupiansk front, there were also nine Russian attacks. Ukraine's defence forces repelled Russian assault actions towards the settlements of Kurylivka, Pishchane, Petropavlivka, Hlushkivka, Novoplatonivka and Kupiansk.
On the Lyman front, Russian forces conducted 10 attacks towards the settlements of Chervonyi Stav, Stavky and Drobysheve and in the areas of the settlements of Novoiehorivka and Zarichne.
On the Sloviansk front, Ukraine's defence forces repelled three Russian attacks in the areas of the settlements of Serebrianka and Zvanivka.
On the Kostiantynivka front, Russian forces carried out 28 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Kleban-Byk, Pleshchiivka, Shcherbynivka, Oleksandro-Shultyne and Rusyn Yar and towards Kostiantynivka, Ivanopillia, Stepanivka and Sofiivka.
On the Pokrovsk front, Ukrainian defenders stopped 50 Russian assault actions in the areas of the settlements of Chervonyi Lyman, Rodynske, Myrnohrad, Pokrovsk, Kotlyne, Udachne, Molodetske and Filiia and towards Toretske, Nove Shakhove and Novopavlivka.
On the Oleksandrivka front, Russian forces conducted 22 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Tolstoi, Oleksandrohrad, Stepove, Pryvilne, Verbove, Krasnohirske, Zlahoda and Rybne and towards the settlements of Andriivka-Klevtsove, Ivanivka, Lisne and Nove Zaporizhzhia.
On the Huliaipole front, Ukraine's defence forces repelled 19 Russian attacks in the areas of the settlements of Solodke, Zelene and Huliaipole and towards Varvarivka and Dobropillia.
On the Orikhiv front, Russian forces tried three times to break through Ukrainian defences towards the settlements of Novoandriivka and Prymorske and in the area of Plavni but had no success.
On the Prydniprovske front, the Russians conducted two unsuccessful offensive actions towards the village of Antonivka.
"Over the past day, aircraft, Rocket Forces and Artillery units from the Ukrainian defence forces struck three clusters of Russian military personnel, three command posts and one artillery system belonging to the Russian forces," the General Staff summed up.
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