Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on August 16, 2022

▪️ Russian missile troops and artillery struck targets in the Shevchenkivskyi, Kyivskyi and Saltivskyi districts in Kharkiv, as well as in Tsyrkuny, Zolochiv, Velyka Danylivka and the outskirts of Bohodukhiv.

▪️The 20th Army's artillery strikes AFU positions in Mazanivka and the nearest forests.

▪️Russian Armed Forces' 3rd Motorized Rifle Division units liberated Bohorodychne.

▪️ Overnight, Russian missile troops and artillery struck targets in the Slovyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration and hit AFU positions near the quarry in Slovyansk.

▪️ Near Bakhmut, fighting continues on its outskirts. Wagner's PMC units are approaching the city from the north and south to storm it from several directions.

▪️ DPR People’s Militia units advance in the direction of Pervomais'ke and Vodyane. Artillery and missile strikes are launched against AFU strongholds in Nevel's'ke and Netailove.

▪️ Russian Armed Forces and DPR People’s Militia units continue their offensive in Vuhledar. Massive artillery and air strikes are carried out on the front line.

▪️ Russian artillery struck Nikopol' and Marhanets’, from where AFU shell Energodar and Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

▪️ Sabotage in Crimea caused explosions at an ammunition depot near Dzhankoi and a military airbase in Gvardeyskoye.

▪️ Russian Armed Forces launched a missile strike against facilities on the outskirts of Zhytomyr, with two loud explosions.