During the day, the Ukrainian Air Force struck the enemy with a number of strikes.

During the day, the Ukrainian aviation made six strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the Russian invaders.

Three strikes were also carried out on enemy positions of anti-aircraft missile systems, according to the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to his data, during the day units of missile forces and artillery hit two enemy ammunition depots.

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The General Staff of the Armed Forces reported that the enemy was concentrating its efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Avdiyiv and Bakhmut directions. Fierce battles for Bakhmut have been going on for a long time.

Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to the Office of the President of Volodymyr Zelenskyi, said that a trap was being laid for opponents in this city. He emphasized that in the Bakhmut direction, during the day, the defenders of Ukraine “disabled, apparently, a battalion (400-800 people).”

It is worth noting that as of December 18, Russia’s total losses in Ukraine amount to about 98,280 people.