The Ukrainian artillery successfully destroys the positions of the Russian armed forces, but the invaders do not stop shelling civilian infrastructure.
On the last day, December 16, Ukrainian troops hit seven main positions of the Russian army. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a summary on the official page in Facebook.
On Friday, the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ artillery and missile troops delivered powerful blows to manpower in five districts where the Russian Armed Forces sent their soldiers, destroyed a command post and an ammunition depot. In addition, the defenders of Ukraine repulsed the Russian advance in and around more than twenty settlements along the front line. Including near Ploshchadka, Krasnopopovka, Belogorivka in the Luhansk region, as well as Bakhmut, Poll, Zelenopillya, Andreevka, Maryinka, Pobeda and Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk region.
The General Staff notes that the Russian army does not stand aside and is also attacking Ukraine, moreover, mainly civilian and energy infrastructure. During the day, the Russians used 98 missiles and carried out more than 65 attacks with the help of MLRS.
In the Slobozhansky and Seversky directions, the Russians fired artillery at Guy in the Chernihiv region; Gavrilov Sloboda, Seredin-Budu, Yastrubino and Kondratovka in Sumy; Strelech, Staritsa, Barn, Olkhovatka, Two-year-old and Krasnoe in Kharkov regions. On Kupyansky, Sinkovka, Orlyanka, Tabaevka, Berestovoye and Vyshneve in the Kharkiv region, as well as Vladimirovka and Stelmahovka in Lugansk came under enemy fire.
On the Avdeevsky and Bakhmut directions, the Russian army attacked more than twenty-five settlements of the Donetsk region, including Verkhnekamennoye, Disputable, Belogorovka, Vesele, Soledar, Bakhmutskoye, Bakhmut, Pervomayskoye, Zheleznoye, Poprosnoye, Marinka. In the Limansky direction, the invaders fired at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Makeevka, Ploshchadka, Chervonopopovka, Dibrova and Gorny, Luhansk region.
Russia also continues to fire artillery on civilian infrastructure along the right bank of the Dnieper River in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. During the day, the invaders shelled more than 35 settlements, including the recently liberated regional center – Kherson. At the same time, the Russian military is redeploying troops from Kakhovka and Novaya Kakhovka to the Nizhniye Syrogoz region. The Russian military is telling local residents that the RF Armed Forces will leave Kakhovka by the end of 2022 and offer to relocate to occupied Crimea.
On the eve of what was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine about successful attacks on military facilities of the RF Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. As a result of the actions of the Ukrainian army, the invaders suffered heavy losses and are now forced to burn the bodies of the dead in the crematoriums launched in Tokmak.
There was information that The Armed Forces of Ukraine could liberate Crimea by February 2023. This prediction was expressed by the former commander of US forces in Europe, retired General Ben Hodges.
