Ukrainian defenders liberate another village in Kharkiv region

Ukraine's defense forces have liberated another village in the Kharkiv region, Dementiivka, north of Kharkiv in the Derhachi district.

This is stated in the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 on Wednesday, May 18.

"In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy's main efforts were focused on maintaining the occupied borders and firing on units of our troops. The enemy tried to counterattack in order to restore the lost positions.

As a result of the offensive of our troops, the settlement of Dementiivka was liberated. The enemy is conducting an offensive in the area of ​​the settlement of Ternova, the fighting continues," the statement said.

It should be noted that the eighty-fourth day of the heroic opposition of the Ukrainian people to the russian military invasion continues.

The enemy continues its offensive in the Eastern Operational Zone, inflates fire along the entire line of contact and in the depths of the defense of our troops in the Donetsk operational area and in the Sloviansk direction, takes measures to strengthen the offensive group.

In the Volyn and Polissia areas, certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to carry out tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.

The second stage of combat readiness testing is underway in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus until May 21. Issues of forcing water barriers and checking the next forces and means of air defense are being worked out. The threat of missile and bomb strikes from the territory of the Republic of Belarus remains.

In the Siveria direction, enemy units fired artillery and mortars at the settlements of Yanzhulivka and Prohres, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions, respectively. The enemy continues to equip additional firing positions and defensive structures in the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions.

The enemy conducted air reconnaissance with the use of UAVs to identify units of our troops, artillery positions, and deployment routes.

According to available information, units of the Armed Forces of the russian federation, stationed in the border areas of the Kursk region, are replenishing supplies of logistics and ammunition.

In the Sloboda direction, in the border areas of Belgorod and Voronezh oblasts, the occupiers continue to keep units of the 32nd Air Defense Division of the 6th Air Force and the Air Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces ready for deployment.

In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy's main efforts were focused on maintaining the occupied frontiers and firing on units of our troops.

The enemy is advancing in the area of ​​the settlement of Ternova, and fighting continues.

In the Sloviaansk direction, the occupiers, with the support of artillery, fought in the Dovhenke area, had no success, and suffered losses. The enemy increased the intensity of air reconnaissance with the use of UAVs.

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy fired on the positions of units of our troops along the line of contact from the entire spectrum of weapons, including aircraft.

In the Lyman direction, the occupiers are trying to gain a foothold on the previously occupied borders. The enemy used aircraft to strike at civilian targets in the areas of Toshkivka, Zolote, Avdiivka, Volodymyrivka, and Vodiane.

In the Sievierodonetsk direction, the enemy carried out assault operations in the area of ​​the settlement of Nizhnie, without success.

In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy is conducting offensive operations, trying to improve the tactical situation. They carried out assault operations in the area of ​​the settlement of Katerynivka and had no success. In the Avdiivka direction, the enemy conducted offensive operations in the area of ​​the settlement of Novoselivka, suffered losses, and retreated.

The assaults of the russian occupiers near the settlements of Novobakhmutivka and Vesele were unsuccessful.

In the Kurakhiv direction, the enemy launched an offensive in the area of ​​the settlement of Pobieda, without success.

The occupiers didn't carry out active hostilities in the Novopavlovsk and Zaporizhzhia areas, and carried out artillery and mortar shelling of infrastructure facilities and residential buildings in the areas of the settlements of Novoandriivka, Kamianske, Orikhiv, Olhivske, and Poltavka.

In the Pivdennyi Buh direction, the enemy fired on the settlements of Lupareve, Posad-Pokrovske, Vysunsk, Osokorivka and Novovorontsovka.

The enemy continued the measures of engineering equipment positions. In order to adjust the artillery fire, they used the Orlan-10 UAV.