In Kupyansky and Limansky, the Russian occupiers focused their efforts on the most important goal for themselves – to obtain advantageous positions before the onset of cold weather and try to advance as much as possible into Kupyansk.
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The head of the press service of the Eastern Group of Forces, Ilya Yevlash, spoke about this on October 17.
Of course, he won’t be able to do it that easily, since we have been setting up our engineering positions there for a long time and making mine-explosive barriers. The enemy is already exposed to them and feels the power of our fortified areas,” noted Ilya Yevlash.
He also said that in this direction the enemy fired at our positions 687 times, using both rocket and cannon artillery, mortars and aircraft.
The enemy concentrates his attention near Sinkovka, Ivanovka, Stelmakhovka and Nadezhda, but our Defense Forces manage to repel attacks and hold lines, preventing the enemy from moving forward,” said Ilya Yevlash.
In the Bakhmut direction during the era, the Defense Forces continue offensive operations in the southern direction near Bakhmut.
Yevlash said that there is real hysteria in the enemy’s Z-channels. Information appears there that they are losing their positions and the situation is extremely difficult for them, so they are starting to retreat to the Bakhmut-Gorlovka highway and are going to gain a foothold there.
As for the situation around Kurdyumovka, it remains tense. The enemy is trying to counterattack, bringing up its reserves, in particular, individual units of motorized rifle battalions and regiments, parachute units and other army reserves.
The enemy does not want to retreat because he knows that he is being driven to meat and if he refuses to carry out the order, he will be severely punished by his own troops. Therefore, he is gathering reserves, bringing in the latest weapons, and trying to patch up the holes,” said Ilya Yevlash.
In the Tauride direction, during the day the enemy carried out 16 air strikes, carried out 42 military clashes, and carried out 595 artillery shellings.
There is an increase in the number of enemy assault operations in the direction of Marinka. The enemy is recruiting Storm detachments in different directions, which have suffered and will continue to suffer significant losses. The Russian command throws them forward to certain death.
In the Maryinsky and Shakhtarsky directions, our defenders repulsed almost 20 enemy attacks in the Maryinka area and another 5 attacks south of Zolotaya Niva and south of Prechistovo, Donetsk region.
In the Avdeevka direction, the enemy does not abandon attempts to cordon off Avdeevka. So, during the day our soldiers repulsed more than 10 enemy attacks.
In the Zaporozhye direction, our defenders did not allow the loss of positions southwest of Novodanilovka, Robotinoy and west of Verbovoy, Zaporozhye region.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Melitopol direction. They have had partial success in the area west of Verbovoy.
Source: Racurs
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