The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published operational information as of 22:00 on Saturday May 16 about the Russian invasion. A total of 195 military clashes have occurred since the beginning of this day.. The defense forces continue to stop the enemy, destroy personnel and deplete the combat potential of the occupiers, inflicting systematic fire defeats. The enemy carried out 51 airstrikes and dropped 182 guided bombs. In addition, he attracted 5,768 kamikaze drones to destroy and carried out 2,226 shelling of populated areas and positions of our troops. In the Severo-Slobodsk and Kursk directions, 16 clashes took place, the enemy carried out five airstrikes, used ten guided bombs, carried out 80 attacks on populated areas and positions of our troops, four of which were using multiple launch rocket systems. In the Yugo-Slobodsk direction, the enemy stormed the positions of our units five times in the areas of the settlements of Vovchansk, Radkovka, Graniv, Izbitskoye and Staritsa. One clash continues. In the Kupyansky direction, our defenders stopped two enemy assaults in the areas of the settlements of Novoosinovoye and Podol. In the Liman direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled seven attempts by the invaders to advance in the areas of the settlements of Stepovoye, Novy Mir, Stavki, Drobyshevo, Yampol and Ozernoye. In the Slavyansk direction, the Defense Forces successfully repulsed three attempts by the invaders to advance forward in the areas of the settlements of Zakitnoye and Rai-Alexandrovka. In the Kramatorsk direction, our defenders stopped one enemy attack in the area of \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bthe settlement of Nikiforovka. Defense forces successfully repulsed eleven enemy assaults in the Konstantinovsky direction near Konstantinovka, Ivanopol, Ilyinovka and Stepanovka. In the Pokrovsky direction the enemy carried out 23 attacks. The occupiers tried to advance in the areas of the settlements Volnoye, Kucherov Yar, Zolotoy Kolodets, Novoye Shakhovoye, Bilitskoye, Grishino, Vasilievka, Novomikolayevka, Rodinskoye, Novoaleksandrovka, Boykovka, Sergeevka and Molodetskoye. According to preliminary estimates, today 46 occupiers were eliminated in this direction and 14 were wounded; 11 units of enemy vehicles and 8 units of special enemy equipment, one electronic warfare station and one infantry shelter were destroyed; three units of automotive equipment, three guns and five control points for unmanned aerial vehicles were damaged. 250 unmanned aerial vehicles of various types destroyed or suppressed. The enemy did not carry out offensive actions in the Aleksandrovsky and Orekhovsky directions today.

In the Gulyai-Polye direction, seventeen attacks by invaders occurred in the areas of the settlements of Dobropolye, Verkhnyaya Tersa, Zlagoda, Gorky, Krinichnoye, Staroukrainka, Gulyai-Polye and Charivnoye. In the Dnieper direction, our defencists successfully stopped two assaults in the direction of Antonovka. Let us remind you that the General Staff spoke about attacks on enemy targets. News from Telegram and WhatsApp. Subscribe to our channels https://t. me/korrespondentnet and WhatsApp Author: 1.