Enemy launches 96 strikes on settlements in Zaporizhzhia region in past day
In the past 24 hours, Russian forces have launched 96 attacks on 18 settlements across the Zaporizhzhia region.
17 January 2024
In the past 24 hours, Russian forces have launched 96 attacks on 18 settlements across the Zaporizhzhia region.
Russian invaders launched 75 shelling attacks on Ukraine's southern Kherson region on January 16, injuring three people.
Ukraine's defense forces eliminated about 372,820 Russian invaders between February 24, 2022 and January 17, 2024, including 730 in the past day alone.
Russian occupiers launched another aerial attack on Ukraine overnight, using 20 Shahed-136/131 strike drones, with Ukrainian air defense forces shooting down 19 targets.
Ukrainian defenders have destroyed 11 enemy attack drones during an overnight attack on the Odesa region.
Seventeen people have been injured in a Russian missile attack on Kharkiv, two of them in serious condition.
Three people have been injured in an overnight Russian drone attack on Odesa, and 130 residents have been evacuated from a damaged building.
After it was confirmed that Ukraine had shot down two Russian aircraft over the Sea of Azov, Russia repeatedly denied this fact, saying that it was the work of their air defenses to show that missions over the Black Sea and Sea of Azov are still safe.
16 January 2024
Several explosions rang out in Kharkiv as the Russian invasion forces launched missiles at the large city located close to the Russian border.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, and the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, discussed the prospects and possibilities of combining technological efforts to achieve victory in the war against Russian invaders.
The Russian military command sought to seize the battlefield initiative and achieve success at the frontline at any cost. However, their attempts have brought no fruit.
Ukraine’s efforts to destroy legitimate military targets on Russian territory are part of exercising its right to self-defense.
Some 85 combat engagements took place across the front lines in Ukraine on Tuesday, January 16, with Ukrainian forces repelling 54 attacks in the Avdiivka and Lyman sectors.
The Russian aggressor attacked Nikopol with artillery and drones on Tuesday, January 16.
Air defense was operative during an air raid in the Kirovohrad region.
Two civilians, a 42-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man, were injured in the Kherson region as a result of Russian shelling of the village of Tyahynka.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed a Russian self-propelled artillery system 'Hyacinth-S' and hit an anti-aircraft missile system 'Tor'.
The Russian military shelled a residential building in the village of Bilozerka in the Kherson region, injuring a 44-year-old man.
The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine confirmed that in December 2023, at least 592 civilians were killed or injured as a result of Russian strikes.
Russian invasion forces on Tuesday launched another strike targeting a thermal power plant in Donetsk region.
Brussels is auditing how many weapons systems EU member states have donated to Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion amid claims that some countries sent fewer weaponry than they could have.
The area around Avdiivka is likely to remain a key focus of Russian forces' efforts, but to date Russia has made very limited territorial gains, suffering significant losses in terms of equipment and personnel.
The White Angel police emergency response team evacuated an elderly woman whose house burned down, a couple who survived a bombardment, and two wounded residents from Avdiivka, Donetsk region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Davos to inform him about massive Russian attacks and emphasize the importance of bolstering Ukrainian air defenses.
Russian troops killed one person in the Donetsk region on January 15.
Russian invaders launched 99 shelling attacks on Ukraine's southern Kherson region on January 15, wounding two people.
Soldiers with the Special Operations Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have helped destroy the enemy's Osa surface-to-air missile system on the southern front.
Ukraine's defense forces repelled 91 enemy attacks in seven sectors of the front in the past 24 hours, most of them on the Avdiivka axis.
As of 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January 16, Russia has five ships on combat duty in the Black Sea, including one Kalibr cruise missile carrier, with a total volley of up to eight missiles.
From February 24, 2022, to January 16, 2024, the Ukrainian Defense Forces eliminated about 372,090 Russian invaders, including 1,110 over the past day.