Frontline
https://t.me/olegtsarovMay 17
▪️On the Kherson front, positional battles are ongoing. The enemy fired 36 times at 11 villages on our left bank. A car and a pharmacy building were damaged in Gornostayevka, and an agro-industrial facility in Konstantinovka was damaged. All districts of the Kherson region are fully or partially without electricity.
▪️On the Zaporizhia front, battles continue north and east of Stepnogorsk. The Russian Armed Forces are striking enemy positions in Kushugum and Grigorovka with artillery, aircraft, and drones. On the eastern flank, our troops, supported by the liberated Charyvne, are advancing from the south towards the Gulyaypole direction. Reports from the field indicate that the Russian Armed Forces managed to push back the enemy in Vozdvizhevka and Verkhnyaya Tersa. However, this information requires official confirmation. Enemy drones hit a kindergarten in Energodar - no one was injured. For the second day, the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant is under artillery strikes and is operating normally.
▪️On the Dnieper direction, battles are ongoing in Vishnevoe, Verbovoe, and the Berezovoe and Dorozhnoe areas. Our troops are closing the pocket from Novopavlovka to Muravka. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are pulling reserves to Mezhevaya.
▪️On the Dobropillia direction, the Russian Armed Forces are building on their success from Grishino to the northwest towards Vasilyevka. Battles are ongoing in the area of Novoaleksandrovka, Rodinskoe, and Dorozhnoe.
▪️On the Konstantinovka direction, our troops are pressing from Ilinovka, fighting in a multi-story residential area. In the northwest of the city, our Aerospace Forces are hitting the dam, trying to create a spill over into the Kryvyi Torets River. Earlier, the Russian Armed Forces managed to hit the dams of the Khruchevsky pond and Molocharka and significantly complicate the enemy's transfer of reserves. After the liberation of Nikolayevka, our units seize the initiative and clear enemy positions. Small groups of Ukrainian Armed Forces in the pocket near Chasov Yar are practically surrounded. To the north of the sector, our troops are storming Tikhonovka.
▪️On the North direction, fierce battles continue on the approaches to Ray-Aleksandrovka. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are counterattacking near Dibrova.
▪️On the Krasnolimansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are operating in small groups in the forests west of Sviatogorsk, Alexandrovka, and Kovoroe Yar. Reports of battles for Borova have begun to appear, confirming yesterday's official information about our assault troops securing the village. Battles are ongoing for Shiykovka and Ohrimovka, in the Budarok area.
▪️On the Kharkiv direction, the Russian Armed Forces have made slight progress in the Veterinarnoe and Granovoe areas. The total advance on the Volchansk salient is ~700 m. Battles are ongoing for Volokhovka and Ohrimovka, in the Budarok area.
▪️In the Sumy border region, progress of half a kilometer was made as on the Krasnolimansk salient and on the central, Sumy direction.
▪️1054 Ukrainian UAVs and 8 aerial bombs were shot down by air defense systems over the past 24 hours. The Black Sea Fleet destroyed 6 Ukrainian UAVs. More than 120 UAVs attacked the Moscow region, three people were killed, 17 injured. The Solnechnogorsk oil filling station is on fire. Multi-story buildings, cars, and infrastructure objects have been damaged. The Security Service of Ukraine reports that the following objects in the Moscow region were hit: a refinery, two oil pumping stations, the Elma Technopark, and the Angstrem plant, which supplies semiconductors for the military-industrial complex. In Crimea, the Ukrainian Armed Forces targeted the Belbek airfield.
▪️A Ukrainian UAV again flew into Latvia. Local authorities, having raised NATO fighters, declared an alert in five regions of the country. The last such incident led to the dismissal of the defense minister and the prime minister of the republic.