{"id":1359149,"date":"2026-02-18T08:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-repelled-160-attacks-by-the-invaders-where-the-fiercest-battles-are-taking-place\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:13:21","slug":"the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-repelled-160-attacks-by-the-invaders-where-the-fiercest-battles-are-taking-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-repelled-160-attacks-by-the-invaders-where-the-fiercest-battles-are-taking-place\/","title":{"rendered":"The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled 160 attacks by the invaders: where the fiercest battles are taking place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Over the past 24 hours, 160 combat clashes took place on the front \u2014 the hottest were in the Hulyaipil, Pokrovsky, and Kostyantynivka directions. The enemy actively used aviation, drones, and artillery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GeneralStaff.ua\/posts\/pfbid02GHCCbArNqVa1L6aHeteutjB1YAc8pKhrk8GwhJqcicYvvQHvFJyqMZXYreTYErP9l?locale=uk_UA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> According to the updated information, yesterday the enemy launched two missile strikes, used 30 missiles, carried out 76 air strikes, dropping 168 guided bombs. In addition, it engaged 8,470 kamikaze drones for destruction and carried out 3,323 attacks on the positions of our troops and settlements, including 67 from multiple launch rocket systems.<\/p>\n<p> The aggressor carried out air strikes with guided bombs on settlements, in particular Kucherivka, Volfyne in Sumy region; Pidhavrilivka, Havrilivka, Velykymykhaylivka, Orly, Fedorivske in Dnipropetrovsk region; Vozdvizhivka, Lisne, Verkhnia Tersa, Myrne, Charivne, Veselyanka, Lyubymivka, Myrivka, Novoselivka, Lyubytske, Dolynka, Kopany, Omelnyk in Zaporizhia region.<\/p>\n<p> Over the past day, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces have struck three areas of personnel concentration, one artillery system, a UAV control point, and three other important targets of the Russian invaders.<\/p>\n<p> In the North Slobozhansk and Kursk directions over the past day, the enemy carried out 99 attacks on the positions of our troops and settlements, 12 of which were from multiple launch rocket systems.<\/p>\n<p> In the South Slobozhansky direction, the enemy stormed the positions of our units four times in the areas of the settlements of Vovchanski Khutory, Prylipka, and towards Okhrimivka.<\/p>\n<p> Three attacks by the invaders took place in the Kupyansk direction yesterday. The defense forces repelled the enemy&#8217;s assault actions in the direction of Kurylivka and Novoosynovoye.<\/p>\n<p> In the Lymansky direction, the enemy attacked eight times, trying to advance in the Zarichny area and towards the settlements of Druzhelyubivka and Stavky.<\/p>\n<p> In the Slavyansk direction, our defenders repelled ten attempts by the occupiers to advance, in the areas of Yampol, Zakitne, Riznykivka, Platonovka, Dronivka, and Svyato-Pokrovsky.<\/p>\n<p> In the Kramatorsk direction, the Russians tried to advance on the positions of our troops three times, in the area of the settlement of Stupochky and towards Novodmytrivka.<\/p>\n<p> In the Kostyantynivka direction, the enemy carried out 14 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Pleshchiivka, Shcherbynivka, Rusyn Yar, Sofiivka and towards Kostyantynivka, Illinivka, Novopavlivka, and Ivano-Frankivka.<\/p>\n<p> In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 21 assault and offensive actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Rodynske, Kotlyne, Filiya and towards the settlements of Novooleksandrivka, Novopidhorodne.<\/p>\n<p> In the Oleksandrivka direction, the enemy attacked our positions six times, in the areas of the settlements of Ternove, Rybne, and towards Danylovka and Tsehelne.<\/p>\n<p> In the Hulyaipol direction, the enemy tried to advance on the positions of our defenders 31 times, in the areas of the settlements of Dobropillya, Hulyaipol, Solodke, Pryluky, Zelene, and towards Zaliznychne, Varvarivka, and Staroukrainka.<\/p>\n<p> The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Orikhiv direction.<\/p>\n<p> Over the past day, the enemy carried out two unsuccessful attacks in the Dnieper direction.<\/p>\n<p> No signs of the formation of offensive groups of the aggressor were detected in the Volyn and Polissya directions.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 24 hours, 160 combat clashes took place on the front \u2014 the hottest were in the Hulyaipil, Pokrovsky, and Kostyantynivka directions. The enemy actively used aviation, drones, and artillery. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the updated information, yesterday the enemy launched two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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-1359149","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\/1359149","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359149\/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=1359149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}