War update: Heavy battles in five directions, 36 combat engagements in past day
The enemy focuses its main efforts on Kupyansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiyivka, and Maryinka directions – 36 combat engagements took place there over the past day.
18 July 2023
The enemy focuses its main efforts on Kupyansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiyivka, and Maryinka directions – 36 combat engagements took place there over the past day.
194 children need to be evacuated from the border community of Vovchansk in Kharkiv region due to constant shelling, a decision on mandatory evacuation is being prepared.
17 July 2023
Ukraine, the UN and Türkiye can jointly ensure the operation of the food corridor and the inspection of vessels. It is necessary for everyone in the world – and everyone who supports it will become a savior of life in a huge territory from Morocco to China, from Indonesia to Lebanon.
Some 29 combat engagements were recorded in the Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka sectors over the past 24 hours, with heavy fighting raging there.
In the Kupiansk direction in Kharkiv region, the enemy is conducting active assault operations.
More than 400 settlements in Ukraine remain without electricity due to hostilities and bad weather. Power engineers continue restoration work where possible.
Russian troops are focusing the main efforts on the Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka directions. Twenty-eight military clashes have occurred there over the past day.
In Kharkiv region, Ukrainian border guards destroyed an enemy kamikaze drone filled with explosives.
16 July 2023
An employee of an industrial enterprise was killed and three more were injured as a result of a Russian missile strike on Kharkiv.
Seven people injured in Russian strike on Kharkiv
Seven people have been injured in a Russian strike on the Osnovianskyi district of Kharkiv.
The Bozena-5 unmanned mine clearance vehicle, provided to Ukraine by a Slovak company, saves the lives of Ukrainian sappers.
The situation in eastern Ukraine is remaining tense. Ukrainian forces are holding defense in the Kharkiv direction, while advancing and holding back the enemy in certain areas in the Donetsk direction.
On the night of July 16, 2023, Russian invaders fired four S-300 missiles from the Belgorod region at the city of Kharkiv.
Russian occupiers struck Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv with missiles in the early hours of Sunday, July 16.
Kharkiv mayor says city center hit by Russian missiles
15 July 2023
During the day, the enemy army shelled Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, twice.
The Russian army focuses its main efforts on Kupyansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiyivka, and Maryinka directions. Twenty-eight combat engagements took place there during the day.
Russian troops shelled the village of Stepnohirske in Zaporizhzhia region using Grad MLRS. Three civilians have been injured.
The soldiers of the National Guard unit of the Kharkiv region were given 24 special searchlights that will help them "hunt" enemy kamikaze drones.
The Russian army shelled the village of Kolodiazne in Kharkiv region, killing one person and injuring another one.
We need thousands of deminers and domestic demining vehicles
Over the past day, Ukraine’s Air Force launched 13 strikes on enemy personnel clusters and hit an anti-aircraft missile system.
Ukraine plans to increase the number of humanitarian demining programs and return up to 35% (470,000 hectares) of potentially contaminated 170,000 square kilometers of agricultural land this year.
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, adopted the draft law in its entirety that introduces a simplified bankruptcy procedure for business entities during martial law.
14 July 2023
In Melitopol and Berdiansk directions, the Defense Forces of Ukraine continue to conduct an offensive operation and gain a foothold on the achieved frontiers. In the eastern directions, heavy battles continue.
In Sumy region, a tractor driver ignored a "Caution mines" sign, drove into a restricted area and hit an explosive, damaging agricultural machinery. A driver suffered minor injuries.
In June, the Russian army shelled Ukraine’s northern border areas three times more intensively than in May.
Yesterday, Russian troops fired on settlements in five districts of the Kharkiv region, using combat aircraft in Kupiansk district.
The Russian forces continue to focus their main efforts on the Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka directions, where about 30 combat clashes have occurred over the past day.