{"id":1345719,"date":"2026-01-17T16:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/what-is-the-situation-at-the-front-the-general-staff-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:40:58","slug":"what-is-the-situation-at-the-front-the-general-staff-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/what-is-the-situation-at-the-front-the-general-staff-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the situation at the front: the General Staff meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ukrainian Defense Forces are holding back the Russian occupiers’ offensive. The total number of combat engagements so far is 62.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is stated in the evening briefing<\/a> of the General Staff.<\/p>\n

Today, the communities of Klyusy, Plyokhiv, and Huta Studenetska in Chernihiv Oblast; Iskryskivshchyna and Budky in Sumy Oblast were hit by enemy artillery and mortar fire. Rogizne was hit by enemy airstrikes.<\/p>\n

In the North-Slobozhansk<\/strong> and Kursk<\/strong> directions, since the beginning of the day, the enemy has launched two air strikes, dropping eight guided bombs, and carried out 42 attacks, including two from multiple launch rocket systems.<\/p>\n

In the South-Slobozhansk<\/strong> direction, the Defense Forces repelled five enemy attacks, four clashes are still ongoing, the enemy is trying to advance in the area of Vovchanskiye Khutory and towards Kruhly and Chuhunivka.<\/p>\n

In the Kupyansk<\/strong> direction, the enemy tried four times to dislodge our units from the occupied positions towards Petropavlivka. One battle is ongoing.<\/p>\n

In the Lyman<\/strong> direction, the invading army carried out six attacks on Ukrainian positions in the areas of Myrne, Zarechne and towards the settlements of Novoserhiivka, Stavky, Drobysheve, and Lyman. Two clashes are ongoing.<\/p>\n

The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Slavyansk<\/strong> and Kramatorsk directions.<\/p>\n

In the Kostyantynivka<\/strong> direction, the enemy attacked seven times near the settlements of Oleksandro-Shultyne, Shcherbynivka, Pleshchiivka and towards Ivano-Pol, Illinivka, and Sofiivka.<\/p>\n

In the Pokrovsky<\/strong> direction, since the beginning of the day, the Russian occupiers have made 22 attempts to push our soldiers from the occupied positions in the areas of the settlements of Nykanorivka, Rodynske, Sukhetske, Rivne, Kotlyne, Udachne, Molodetske and towards Novopavlivka and Filia. The defense forces are holding back the onslaught and have already repelled 19 attacks.<\/p>\n

In the Oleksandrivka<\/strong> direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled two assault actions by enemy troops. The enemy is trying to advance in the areas of the settlements of Vyshneve and Zlagoda. Another clash is ongoing. Dibrova was hit by an airstrike.<\/p>\n

In the Hulyaipol<\/strong> direction, 15 clashes took place in the areas of the settlements of Solodke, Hulyaipol and towards Varvarivka and Zelenye. Five of them are currently ongoing. Rizdvyanka and Zaliznychne were once again under enemy airstrikes.<\/p>\n

No enemy offensive actions have been recorded in the Orikhiv<\/strong> and Prydniprov<\/strong> directions at this time.<\/p>\n

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The Ukrainian Defense Forces are holding back the Russian occupiers’ offensive. The total number of combat engagements so far is 62. This is stated in the evening briefing of the General Staff. Today, the communities of Klyusy, Plyokhiv, and Huta Studenetska in Chernihiv Oblast; Iskryskivshchyna and Budky in Sumy Oblast were hit by enemy artillery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1340203,"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-1345719","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\/1345719","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}