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Russians carry out 22 air strikes, 50 MLRS attacks on Ukraine

Ukrainian aviation struck 13 times at Russian troops' clusters.

Russians carry out 22 air strikes, 50 MLRS attacks on Ukraine
Photo: Facebook/Ukrainian General Staff

During the day, Russian troops carried out 22 air strikes and fired more than 50 times from multiple launch rocket systems, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in its evening update on 18 January.

The threat of Russian air and missile strikes throughout Ukraine remains high.

The aviation of the Defence Forces carried out 13 strikes on Russian troops' clusters and three on the positions of anti-aircraft missile systems. The units of the missile troops and artillery of the Defence Forces struck one command post, one cluster of Russian manpower and one electronic warfare station.

According to the command, the Russians are focusing their main efforts on conducting an offensive in the Bakhmut direction. They are conducting unsuccessful offensives in Avdiyivka, trying to improve the tactical situation in the Lyman sector, and in the Zaporizhzhya sector they conducted unsuccessful offensives near Orikhiv and Hulyaypole. In the Kupyansk, Novopavlivka and Kherson sectors, the Russians are on the defensive.

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