The Defense Force of Ukraine fired an ammunition field warehouse near the settlement of Davydiv Brid in Kherson region. Warehouses with a lot of ammunition were also destroyed in Izium, the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported.
In the Avdiivka direction, occupants fired on individual positions of the Defense Forces with cluster munitions, General Staff reported.
As of 6 pm May 16, the situation in other directions is the following:
in the Slobozhansky direction, russia tries to restrain the advance of the Defense Forces north of Kharkiv to prevent them from reaching the state border of Ukraine. It also reinforces the grouping of troops with special forces and air defense units.
in the Volyn, Polissya and Siversky directions, the situation has not changed significantly.
in the Kharkiv direction, the main efforts of the enemy are focused on maintaining their positions and preventing the advance of our troops. The enemy tried to fight in the direction of the village of Ternov, but was unsuccessful.
In the Slovyansk direction, the occupants complete and replenishe their losses and try to resume the offensive.
In the Donetsk direction, russian troops fired on Ukrainian units with mortars, artillery, multiple rocket launchers and aircrafts.
In the Lyman direction, russian enemy conducted offensive operations in the area of the village of Shandrygolove. In the direction of the settlement of Lyman. In the Lyman direction the occupants have no success, so they are trying to strengthen the grouping of the troops.
In the Severodonetsk direction, russian occupiers fought in the area of the settlement of Borivske where they suffered casualties.
In the Bakhmut direction, russia is fighting in the areas of Toshkivka and Pylypchatyne. In the area of Girske, the occupiers suffered losses and withdrew.
In the Kurakhiv direction, the enemy attacked in the area of Maryinka and Novomykhailivka, but had no success.
In Mariupol, russian enemy continues massive artillery and air strikes on the Azovstal plant.
in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia directions, russians carried out fire damage to civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Vremivka, Novosilka, Mala Tokmachka and Novoandriyivka. Inflicted an air strike on the settlement of Malinivka.
in the South Buh direction, occupants shelld civilian infrastructure with artillery and mortars of the settlements of Oleksandrivka, Shevchenkove and Novovorontsovka.
the situation in the transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldovaremained without significant changes. General Staff doesn`t rule out provocations by the russians.
enemy ships in the Black and Azov Seas continue to isolate the area of hostilities, conduct reconnaissance and fire support in the coastal direction.
Today russian occupants shelled the village of Pechenigy in the Kharkiv region, one person died, one more was wounded. Severodonetsk is also under constant shelling, at least 10 people have died.