Russian troops continue to try to capture Synkivka and advance near Terny on the Kupiansk-Lyman front, and advance the lines to the Siverskyi Donets River on the Bakhmut front. Source: Illia Yevlash, head of the press service of the Khortytsia Operational Strategic Group Details: Yevlash said that the Russians continue to exert pressure in the area of Synkivka on the Kupiansk-Lyman front, trying to capture it, but to no avail.
Experts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have suggested that the Russian occupiers will have to take an operational pause before resuming offensive operations on the Avdiivka front or redeploy reinforcements from other parts of the front line to prevent the culmination of operations near Avdiivka.
Ukrainian and Russian forces have clashed 82 times over the past 24 hours. The Russian army has launched a total of 13 missile strikes and 104 airstrikes and attacked Ukrainian troops' positions and populated areas 169 times with multiple launch rocket systems.
Russian occupation forces shot two Ukrainian prisoners of war near the village of Vesele in Donetsk Oblast on Sunday, 18 February. Source: Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; Illia Yevlash, spokesman for the Khortytsia Operational Strategic Group of Forces, in a comment for Ukrainska Pravda Quote from the Ground Forces: "This morning, the Russians once again proved their disregard for International Humanitarian Law when they shot two Ukrainian prisoners of war in an area overseen by th
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