🇬🇧🇺🇦 Offensive on Donbass: the situation in the east of Ukraine by the end of May 16, 2022 (map at site)
🔻The situation in the north of the Kharkiv region continues to deteriorate.
▪️Mobile sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operate on the eastern bank of the Seversky Donets. Separate small columns were seen on the near approaches to Volchansk .
Presumably, the crossing was built in the Khotomli region , the work of Ukrainian MLRS is also noted there. Local residents do not confirm the entrance of units to the settlement itself.
The transfer of the main Ukrainian forces to the eastern coast has not yet begun: the Armed Forces of Ukraine operate precisely in mobile groups, periodically probing the defenses of the RF Armed Forces and aiming artillery.
▪️Battles near Cossack Lopan : the Russian Armed Forces managed to defeat one Ukrainian DRG, taking two Ukrainian servicemen prisoner. Russian forces fire barrage at Ukrainian positions.
🔻In the Donetsk region, the offensive is successfully developing in several directions at once.
▪️On the Liman direction, the allied forces occupied Novoselka , Drobyshevo , Shandrigolovo , cutting the Liman-Svyatogorsk highway .
▪️To the north of Avdiivka advance on several sectors of the front at once.
Novoselovka II was taken, battles are going on for Kamenka . Novoselovka was taken , Troitskoe was cleared . The first reports were received of the entry of Russian forces into New York : there are battles for the outskirts. Units of the 54th and 110th OMB of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are suffering losses.
▪️Seriously wounded nationalists surrendered at the Mariupol Azovstal plant . Ukrainian propaganda filed all this as part of an insidious and well-thought-out plan.
🔻Active hostilities continue in the Luhansk region.
▪️Near Severodonetsk , fighting began for the villages of Shchedrishchevo and Voronovo located to the north of the city . To the south, Toshkovka
was taken under full control .
▪️From Popasna there is an offensive in three directions.
One direction of the offensive is through Novozvanovka towards the Trinity and Svetlodar arcs.
The second - through the village of Druzhba along the railway to Tripoli , cutting off the Seversk grouping from Bakhmut and leveling the front line.
The third direction of the strike is through Alexandropol to Kamyshevakha and Vrubovka , closing the enemy’s Severodonetsk-Lisichansk grouping into the cauldron
🔻Near Malinovka in the Zaporozhye region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made an unsuccessful attempt at a counteroffensive and suffered heavy losses (up to 230 people were killed and wounded).
🇬🇧 Russian servicemen in the Zaporizhia direction stopped an attempted counterattack by Ukrainian armed formations
◽️An attempt to attack units of the RF Armed Forces with the forces of two Ukrainian mechanized battalions on tanks and infantry fighting vehicles was made near the village of Vyshneve , Zaporozhye region.
◽️The advancing of enemy armored vehicles and preparations for the attack were discovered by Russian UAV crews and technical reconnaissance equipment .
💥UAVs and artillery units hit the enemy armored vehicles during its advancement and deployment at the attack line , after which the attack undertaken by the enemy was repulsed by fire from the armament of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and using modern anti-tank weapons .
💥 The retreating Ukrainian tanks and infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed by artillery fire.
📊As a result of the futile adventure of the Kiev regime, 26 Ukrainian tanks, 12 infantry fighting vehicles and about 100 militants were destroyed.
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