The British Ministry of Defense published an up-to-date map of hostilities in Ukraine as of Tuesday, August 16.

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In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy continued shelling from various types of artillery near Kramatorsk itself, as well as Spirny and Ivano-Daryevka. The troops of the Russian Federation are trying to conduct an offensive in the direction of the Lisichansk oil refinery - Ivano-Daryevka, the fighting continues.

Enemy units conducted offensive and assault operations in the directions of Vladimirovka - Bakhmutskoye and Stryapovka - Soledar. Here the Ukrainian soldiers stopped and pushed the occupiers back. Fighting continues on the Pokrovskoye-Bakhmutskoye and Gorlovka-Zaliznoye directions.

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While Russian forces are strengthening their defenses in southern Ukraine, conducting aerial reconnaissance and trying to prevent a counterattack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces with airstrikes, fighting continues in the eastern operational zone. Despite the intention to hold the previously occupied territories, the military leadership of the Russian Federation did not abandon its intention to capture the entire Donetsk region, the press service of the British Ministry of Defense reports..