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18 December 2023
Over the last day, the occupants fired 534 shells at the positions of the Defense Forces and the territory of the liberated localities in the Luhansk region. Most of them were aimed at Makiivka.
Russian forces launched 118 strikes on 18 towns and villages in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region on Sunday, December 17.
The Russian army carried out 80 shelling attacks on the Kherson region on December 17, killing one person.
In the past 24 hours, Russian forces shelled Kherson region 80 times, killing one civilian.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated about 347,160 Russian invaders in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to December 18, 2023, including 1,090 occupiers in the past day alone.
On the night of December 18, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with five Shahed combat UAVs from Russia’s Primorsko-Akhtarsk district.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine firmly hold the defense in the Avdiivka direction, inflicting significant losses on the occupiers. In the past day, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 16 enemy attacks in that sector of the front.
In the past day, Russian troops shelled the border territories and settlements of Sumy region 23 times.
Ukraine’s air defense forces have shot down an enemy drone over Khmelnytskyi region.
From December 11 to 17, the Defense Forces of Ukraine eliminated 7,250 Russian servicepersons, destroyed 688 units of enemy weapons and military equipment.
Twenty people, four of them children, were evacuated from the de-occupied part of the Kherson region on December 16.
Russia’s sabotage and reconnaissance groups have been more active recently in the areas of Sumy and Kharkiv regions bordering the Russian Federation.
Russia will almost certainly utilise methods including substantive electoral fraud and voter intimidation in the temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine to ensure that Putin wins the so-called ‘presidential elections’ and give the perception of legitimacy to the aggressor’s invasion of Ukraine.
On December 16, 2023, Russian troops conducted offensive operations along the Kupiansk-Svatove-Kreminna line, near Bakhmut and Avdiivka, west and southwest of Donetsk, in the border area of the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, and in the west of the Zaporizhzhia region, having advanced in some areas.
17 December 2023
A Russian Su-25 attack aircraft was downed over the war zone in Mykolaiv region on Sunday in what appears to be a friendly fire incident.
Ukraine’s air defense forces on Sunday afternoon shot down two Russian drones from the skies over the Pavlohrad district, Dnipropetrovsk region.
The number of combat clashes in the Avdiivka sector has decreased as only 17 were recorded on Sunday.
Fifty-four combat engagements have occurred on the front between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops in the past 24 hours.
An infrastructure facility was damaged in the Dnipropetrovsk region’s town of Nikopol, following Russia’s attack on December 17, 2023.
Ukraine’s defense intelligence confirmed that certain combat engagements had occurred near the village of Terebreno in Russia’s Belgorod region.
On the night of December 17, 2023, Russia attacked Ukraine’s Odesa region with Shahed-type drones, having caused significant damage.
Cyber security experts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, on the Day of the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation, attacked 15 websites of companies involved in engineering support for Russian troops.
An overnight attack on the Morozovsk air base in Russia's Rostov region was a joint special operation carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Armed Forces of Ukraine (SFU), well-informed sources told Ukrinform.
Russian artillery shelling killed a 69-year-old woman in her own house in the Sumy region.
The total strength of the Ukrainian defense forces is currently about 1.1 million people, and any recruiting campaign cannot cover these volumes, therefore Ukraine cannot do without mobilization.
As a result of yet another Russian strike targeting the central part of Kherson, a local man was killed.
The situation on the border with Belarus remains fully under control and no threat is being observed of a repeated Russian offensive from that direction.
The range of Shahed kamikaze drones available to Russia for the war effort against Ukraine currently remains unchanged as deliveries of drones from Iran are ongoing.
On the night of December 17, 2023, Russian invaders twice shelled the Dnipropetrovsk region’s Nikopol district.
The number of Russian assault actions has somewhat reduced in the Tavria direction over the past two days. However, the enemy continues launching active infantry attacks and artillery strikes.