Russia – Ukraine war updates as of August 19, 2024

Russia – Ukraine war latest updates from the General Staff of Ukraine as of August 19, 2024.

908 day of the russian large-scale invasion and 3,826 day of the russia’s war against Ukraine begins.

Operational information as of 08:00 a.m. August 19, 2024 regarding the Russian invasion.

During the past day, 145 combat clashes were recorded. The hottest situation was in the Pokrovsky direction, and the enemy was also actively advancing in the Toretsk direction.

According to detailed information, yesterday the enemy hit the positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas with five strikes with eight missiles and 79 airstrikes, dropping 106 anti-aircraft missiles. In addition, he carried out more than 4,600 attacks, 159 of them from rocket salvo systems.

The aggressor carried out airstrikes in the areas of Golyshivske, Yunakivka, Basivka, Bilopillia settlements of the Sumy region; Mala Vovcha, Staritsa, Kupyansk-Vuzlovy, Cherneshchyna, Kharkiv region; Dachne, Nove, Druzhba, Toretsk, Nelipivka, New York, Vozdvizhenka, Tarasivka, Kalinove, Mykhailivka, Oleksandropil, Kostyantynivka, Makarivka, Shevchenko, Velika Novosilka of the Donetsk region; Dolinka, Kamianske, Zaporizhzhia region; Lviv, Mykolaivka of the Kherson region.

Yesterday, the aviation and missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces made 17 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and anti-aircraft defenses of the enemy. In addition, the artillery system, two anti-aircraft vehicles, three control points, four radars and two more important objects of the occupiers were hit.

In the Kharkiv direction, three battles took place near Liptsi and Vovchansk.

The enemy attacked 20 times in the Kupiansk direction. Defense forces repelled assaults near Hlushkivka, Stelmakhivka, Kolesnikivka, Lozova and Synkivka.

There were 20 skirmishes in the Lyman direction, in particular, near Grekivka, Makiivka, Nevsky, Terni, Novosadovo, and Torsky.

Two combat clashes took place in the Siverskyi direction. Ukrainian defenders repelled the assaults of the Russian invaders near Verkhnyokamyanskyi and Ivano-Daryivka.

In the Kramatorsk direction, 14 battles were fought in the districts of Hryhorivka, Kalynyvka, Chasovoy Yar, Klishchiivka, Stupochky and Predtechyny.

In the Toretsk direction, the Russians attacked 24 times near Zalizny, Toretsk, Dilyivka, and Nelipivka.

In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders repelled 45 enemy assaults in the areas of the settlements of Vozdvizhenka, Kalinove, Zelene Pole, Myrolyubivka, Grodivka, Mykolaivka, Ptyche, Novogrodivka, Zavitne, Skuchne, and Mykhailivka. The greatest concentration of attacks was near Vozdvizhenka and Novogrodivka.

In the Kurakhiv direction, the Defense Forces stopped nine enemy attacks near Paraskoviivka, Krasnohorivka, and Kostyantynivka.

In the direction of Vremivsk, the Russian invaders advanced four times, in particular, in the direction of Vodyane and Rozdolne.

In the Dnieper direction, enemy troops carried out four assaults on the positions of Ukrainian units. They had no success.

The situation has not changed in the Gulyaipil and Orihiv directions.

No signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn and Poliske directions.

On the border with the Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the enemy maintains a military presence, carries out mortar and artillery attacks on populated areas from the territory of the Russian Federation.

At the same time, our soldiers continue to actively inflict significant losses in manpower and equipment on the occupying forces, exhausting the enemy along the entire line of battle.

In general, the Russian invaders lost 1,120 servicemen last day. Ukrainian soldiers also destroyed five tanks, 15 armored combat vehicles, 48 ​​artillery systems, four anti-aircraft guns, two air defense systems, 57 operational-tactical unmanned aerial vehicles, five cruise missiles, 55 vehicles and 17 units of the occupiers’ special equipment.

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