[Korrespondent] Strikes were also carried out on 10 areas where Russian personnel and military equipment were concentrated, as well as on an ammunition depot.
Over the past 24 hours, 139 combat clashes occurred on the front in 11 directions. The most active battles were fought in the Pokrovsk area, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in the morning report on Saturday, August 16.
Thus, yesterday, Russian aggressors carried out two missile and 111 air strikes on the positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas, using three missiles and dropping 213 guided aerial bombs (GAB). In addition, the enemy carried out 6,045 shellings, 98 of which were from MLRS, and used 5,659 kamikaze drones.
In turn, the aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit 10 areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, three command posts, one ammunition depot and three artillery systems of the Russian invaders.
Seven military clashes occurred in the Severo-Slobodskoy and Kursk directions .
In the Yuzhno-Slobodskoy direction, the Defense Forces repelled five attacks near the settlements of Vovchansk, Kamenka, Khatnee and Figolovka.
In the Kupyansk direction, there were five enemy assaults in the areas of the populated areas of Petrovpavlovka, Zagrizovo, Novaya Kruglyakovka and in the direction of Kupyansk.
In the Liman direction, the enemy attacked 21 times, trying to advance near the settlements of Karpovka, Shandrigolovo, Kolodyazy, Yampol, and Ridkodub.
In the Seversk direction, our defenders repelled six assaults near Grigorovka, Serebryanka, Vyemka, Fedorovka, Pereyezdnoye and in the direction of Seversk.
In the Kramatorsk direction, two armed clashes were recorded in the Orekhovo-Vasilyevka area and in the direction of Bondarnoye.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out six attacks near Pleshchievka, Stepanovka, Yablunovka and Rusiny Yar.
In the Pokrovsk direction, our defenders stopped 45 assaults in the areas of the settlements of Poltavka, Vladimirovka, Fedorovka, Novoekonomicheskoe, Rodinskoye, Sukhetskoye, Promen, Pokrovsk, Zvirovoye, Udachnoye, Dachnoye, Novoukrainka, Lisovka, Nikanorovka and in the direction of the settlement of Filiya.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, 21 battles took place near the settlements of Tolstoy, Komyshuvakha, Zelenoe Pole, Maliyevka, Mirnoye, Zaporozhskoye, and Olgovskoye.
In the Dnieper direction, our soldiers repelled five attacks towards Primorsky, Antonovsky bridges and Belogrudy Island.
Let us recall that in the course of 24 hours on August 15, Russia lost more than 1,000 soldiers killed and wounded at the front. The total number of Russian losses is approaching 1.1 million people