General Staff: Russian forces attacked three front directions more than 70 times
Ukraine's General Staff reports that Russian troops carried out 238 attacks over the past day. The Kupiansk, Kostiantynivka and Pokrovsk directions were targeted most.
Ukraine's General Staff of the Armed Forces said on 17 October that, in the course of the war in Ukraine, Russian forces had launched 238 attacks along the front line over the past day.
The heaviest pressure was recorded in three directions: Kupiansk, Kostiantynivka and Pokrovsk. According to the headline of the outlet Ukrainska Pravda, the number of attacks in these three directions exceeded 70.
The General Staff provides a region-by-region breakdown in its daily operational summary, which sets out where clashes took place along the front. This account is limited to the data that the source itself makes public.
