According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since the beginning of the day, 85 military clashes have occurred at the front, while the enemy is active in the Pokrovsky direction, where 10 military clashes continue.
Three people were killed and four others, including a 14-year-old boy, were wounded as a result of Russian cluster munitions shelling a village in the Donetsk region.
The number of military clashes at the front has increased to 58, and half of them are still ongoing almost along the entire front line, with the fiercest fighting taking place in the Pokrovsky and Kramatorsk directions, where Ukrainian troops are holding back enemy attacks.
The situation in the Pokrovsky direction remains tense, and the Defense Forces are taking measures to deplete the offensive potential of the invaders. Since the beginning of the day, the Russians have made 12 attempts to break through the Ukrainian Defense.
The Ukrainian armed forces repelled numerous Russian attacks on several fronts, striking 13 areas of Russian personnel concentration and 3 enemy control points, while Russian troops launched missile, air and drone strikes on Ukraine.
Since the beginning of the day, Russian terrorist forces have carried out 28 attacks on Ukrainian positions in the Pokrovsky direction, Ukrainian the defenders repelled 23 assaults, 5 combat clashes are ongoing.
According to the General Staff's report, Russian troops conducted 59 combat engagements along the front line, including 22 in the Pokrovsk sector.
Ukrainian troops repelled numerous Russian attacks in many areas. In particular, fighting continues near Vovchansk in Kharkiv region and Krasnohorivka in Donetsk region.
Russian troops shelled the frontline village of Nevske in the Luhansk region with Grad rocket launchers, cannon artillery and mortars.
On June 18, Russian troops fired 12 times at settlements in Donetsk region, killing one person and injuring two others, and damaging many buildings and structures.
Over the last day, 129 combat engagements took place in the frontline, most of them in the Pokrovsk and Kramatorsk sectors, where 39 and 21 attacks were repelled respectively.
Since the beginning of the day, 113 combat engagements took place in various sectors of the frontline, the situation was the most intense in the Pokrovsk sector, where Ukrainian troops repelled 20 attacks and are engaged in 17 more battles.
Since the beginning of the day, 86 combat engagements have taken place on the frontline, with Russian troops intensifying their activity in the Toretsk sector, which Ukrainian troops are bravely defending.
Russian-terrorist forces intensified attacks in the Pokrovske direction, trying to break through the Ukrainian defense line. A total of 76 combat engagements were recorded, with Ukrainian troops repelling the attacks and inflicting losses on the enemy.
Nine combat engagements took place in the Siverskyi sector today, while the situation in the Pokrovske sector remains tense but controlled by the Defense Forces.
Yesterday, on June 17, Russian troops attacked the Donetsk region nine times, causing significant destruction, at least one person was killed and another wounded.
There were 119 combat engagements in the frontline. The enemy made 42 attacks in the Pokrovsk sector today.
Russian occupants continue a continuous offensive in the Pokrovsk sector, attempting to break through the defenses near six settlements 32 times, with more than half of the combat engagements still ongoing.
In Donetsk region, Ukrainian troops captured an enemy tank and took several Russian occupants prisoner, and a total of 42 combat engagements took place since the beginning of the day, with the enemy being most active in the Pokrovsk sector near Novooleksandrivka.
Russian troops shelled three districts of Donetsk region, wounding 10 people and damaging residential buildings, industrial facilities and infrastructure.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 104 combat engagements took place on the frontline over the past day, with the enemy significantly intensifying its activity in the Pokrovsk sector.
The enemy intensified offensive and assault operations along almost the entire frontline, the number of combat engagements increased to 70.
Three civilians were wounded during an attack by Russian troops on the Borivska community in Kharkiv region.
Seven civilians, including two children aged 4 and 7, were injured as a result of Russian shelling of Nova Poltavka village.
Russian troops shelled 8 settlements in Donetsk region, damaging or destroying at least 15 buildings, including residential houses and infrastructure.
In Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk district, Donetsk region, two private houses caught fire as a result of hostile shelling, firefighters extinguished the flames over an area of 380 square meters, no information on casualties was received.
According to the General Staff, Ukrainian troops repelled numerous enemy attacks in many parts of the frontline, but the situation remained the most difficult in the Pokrovsk sector.
Russian troops are most actively attacking in the Pokrovske direction, which accounts for more than a third of the enemy's attacks, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Defense forces are holding the line and stopping the enemy's advance: as of 16:00 on June 15, 60 combat engagements took place along the entire frontline, including in the Pokrovske and Kurakhove directions.
At present, the total number of enemy attacks on the front line has reached 44. The enemy is most actively trying to attack the Pokrovske direction today - seven attacks were repelled, eight are ongoing, the General Staff reported.