{"id":1308471,"date":"2025-10-18T22:58:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-repelled-116-attacks-by-the-invaders-in-a-day-which-directions-are-the-hottest\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T22:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:58:53","slug":"the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-repelled-116-attacks-by-the-invaders-in-a-day-which-directions-are-the-hottest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-repelled-116-attacks-by-the-invaders-in-a-day-which-directions-are-the-hottest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled 116 attacks by the invaders in a day: which directions are the hottest?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published<\/a> operational information as of 10:00 PM on October 18, 2025 regarding the Russian invasion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In total , 116 combat clashes<\/strong> have taken place since the beginning of this day. Ukrainian defenders are resolutely repelling the enemy’s attempts to advance deep into our territory, inflicting fire damage on it.<\/p>\n

Today, Russian forces launched one missile and 60 air strikes, used three missiles and dropped 124 guided bombs. In addition, they involved 2,734 kamikaze drones in the strikes and carried out 3,836 attacks on the positions of our troops and settlements.<\/p>\n

In the North-Slobozhansk<\/strong> and Kursk<\/strong> directions, since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian soldiers have repelled three assault actions of the invaders, two more clashes are ongoing. In addition, the enemy carried out 10 air strikes, dropping 28 guided bombs, and also carried out 132 attacks on the positions of our troops and settlements, five of which were from multiple launch rocket systems.<\/p>\n

In the South Slobozhansky<\/strong> direction, the enemy stormed the positions of our units eight times near the settlements of Odradne, Kamyanka, and Bologivka.<\/p>\n

In the Kupyansk<\/strong> direction, the aggressor carried out offensive actions in the area of the settlement of Stepova Novoselivka, Kupyansk, Petropavlivka and towards Pishchane. Six out of eight attacks were repelled by Ukrainian soldiers, two more clashes are ongoing.<\/p>\n

In the Lyman<\/strong> direction, Russian invaders twice attacked the positions of the Defense Forces near the settlements of Novy Mir and Zarichne.<\/p>\n

Seven enemy assaults were repelled by Ukrainian defenders in the Slavyansk<\/strong> direction – the occupiers tried to advance in the areas of the settlements of Yampil, Dronivka, and Viyimka. One combat clash is ongoing.<\/p>\n

In the Kramatorsk<\/strong> direction, the enemy twice unsuccessfully tried to break through the defenses of our defenders in the area of the settlement of Orikhovo-Vasylivka.<\/p>\n

In the Kostyantynivka<\/strong> direction, the Russians attacked the positions of Ukrainian units in the areas of Shcherbynivka, Pleshchiivka, and Rusyn Yar nine times; the Ukrainian defenders repelled all enemy attacks.<\/p>\n

In the Pokrovsk<\/strong> direction, since the beginning of the day, the invaders have tried to advance on the positions of Ukrainian units 39 times. The enemy tried to advance in the areas of the settlements of Volodymyrivka, Rodynske, Myrolyubivka, Novoekonomichne, Chervonyi Lyman, Rodynske, Lysivka, Pokrovsk, Zvirovo, Kotlyne, Udachne, Molodetske and Kotlyarivka. In five locations, fighting has not subsided to this day.<\/p>\n

According to preliminary data, 83 occupiers were neutralized in this direction today, 50 of them irreversibly. Ukrainian soldiers also destroyed an artillery system, ten UAVs, a control antenna and a UAV control point; seven shelters for personnel and two enemy UAV control points were also hit.<\/p>\n

In the Oleksandrivka<\/strong> direction, the aggressor tried 15 times to break through the defenses of our defenders in the areas of the settlements of Sosnivka, Vorone, Novomykolaivka, Novohrygorivka, and Malynivka.<\/p>\n

The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Hulyaipil<\/strong> direction.<\/p>\n

In the Orikhiv<\/strong> direction, the enemy attacked twice in the area of the Stepove settlement.<\/p>\n

On the Dnieper<\/strong> direction, the enemy tried three times in vain to approach the positions of our defenders in the direction of the Antoniv Bridge.<\/p>\n

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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published operational information as of 10:00 PM on October 18, 2025 regarding the Russian invasion. In total , 116 combat clashes have taken place since the beginning of this day. Ukrainian defenders are resolutely repelling the enemy’s attempts to advance deep into our territory, inflicting fire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1304950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1308471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1304950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}