Operational update of General Staff of the UAF regarding the russian invasion as of 6:00, on October 17, 2022.

Тhe two hundred-thirty-sixth (236) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues.

The enemy is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, is concentrating its efforts on trying to restrain the actions of the Defence Forces in certain directions, and at the same time is trying to conduct offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions.

The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the entire contact line, carrying out engineering equipment of defensive positions and lines in separate directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance. Violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war, it strikes critical infrastructure and the homes of the civilian population.

Over the past day, the enemy launched two missile and twenty-six air strikes, launched more than eighty MLRS attacks.

Areas of more than twenty settlements were hit by the enemy. In particular, Bilopillia in the Sumy oblast, Slovyansk, Pavlivka and Novosilka in the Donetsk oblast, Marganets in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast, Pravdyne and Biloghirka in the Kherson oblast. The enemy attacked Mykolaiv with fifteen kamikaze drones, eleven of them were shot down by our defenders.

In the Volyn, Polissya and Siverskyi directions, the situation remains unchanged. There is still a threat of missile and air strikes, as well as the use of the "Shahed-136" attack UAV from the territory of the republic of belarus.

The enemy fired in other directions:

in the Slobozhansky direction - from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Veterynarne, Vysoka Yaruga, Vovchansk, Vovchanski Khutory, Gatishche, Dvorichne, Zelene, Kozacha Lopan, Krasne and Ogirtseve settlements of the Kharkiv region;

in the Kramatorsk direction - from tanks, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Berestov, Petropavlivka, Pershotravneve settlements of the Kharkiv oblast; Hrekivka and Novoyehorivka in Luhansk oblast and Zarichne, Terny, Torske and Yampolivka in Donetsk oblast;

in the Bakhmut direction - from tanks and rocket artillery in the areas of Andriivka, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Bilohorivka, Vesele, Opytne, Soledar and Yakovlivka settlements of the Donetsk oblast;

in the Avdiivka direction - from tanks, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Berdychi, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Nevelske, Novomykhailivka and Pervomaiske settlements of the Donetsk region.

The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia directions. Fired artillery of various types in the areas of Bohoyavlenka, Velyka Novosilka, Volodymyrivka, Vuhledar and Paraskoviivka settlements of the Donetsk oblast.

In the South Buh direction, more than twenty-five settlements along the contact line suffered fire damage. In particular, Nikopol and Novokamyanka in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast, Ternovi Pody, Partyzanske, Shyroke in the Mykolaiv oblast, and Myrne in the Kherson oblast.

The occupiers are trying to replenish their losses in manpower and massively mobilize men in the temporarily occupied territories. Thus, according to the available information, in Stanytsia Luhanska, Luhansk oblast, employees of communal services were forcibly registered for military service under russian legislation and conducted a so-called medical examination. According to its results, all were found to be suitable for military service.

It was confirmed that the enemy's manpower, weapons and military equipment had been destroyed in the previous days. As a result of accurate strikes by the Defence Forces, the enemy suffered the following losses in the populated areas of the Zaporizhzhia oblast: Molochansk - up to 40 wounded, Kamianka-Dniprovska - 5 units of weapons and military equipment and about 25 wounded, Enerhodar - up to 20 wounded, Orihiv and Hulyaipole - up to 5 units of weapons and military equipment and up to 50 wounded, Polohy - about 7 units of military equipment and up to 30 wounded. The information is being clarified.

Over the past 24 hours, units of the Defence Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of Torske, Spirne, Soledar, Bakhmut, Mayorsk, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka and Novomykhailivka settlements of the Donetsk oblast.

Air Defence Forces have carried out more than thirty strikes in the past 24 hours. It has been confirmed that twenty-five areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as six positions of the enemy's anti-aircraft missile systems, have been hit. Also, our air defence units shot down fifteen enemy UAVs.

Missile forces and artillery hit two control points, one anti-aircraft defence position and one ammunition warehouse over the past day.

We are approaching victory together! We believe in the Armed Forces! Glory to Ukraine!