Rocket event in Mykolaiv, Mykolaiv area, Ukraine on Sun 16th October 2022

The situation in the operational area in the Southern Buh direction is consistently tense but controlled by the Defense Forces of Ukraine. The Operational Command South said this in a Facebook post, Ukrinform reports. “The enemy conducts defensive operations in an attempt to hold the occupied positions. During the combat day, the enemy inflicted fire damage using missiles, aviation, MLRS, barrel artillery, mortars, and tanks along the contact line. The enemy mined the area in the areas of the probable advance of our troops," the report says. Ukrainian aviation launched 13 strikes on the enemy's positions, in particular, on the deployment of air defense system in the Beryslav and Kakhovka districts and areas of the enemy's manpower and equipment - in the Mykolaiv and Bashtanka districts. Missile and artillery units performed 426 fire missions over the past day. The confirmed losses of the enemy include 14 rashists, 3 self-propelled artillery systems, a Msta-B howitzer, an electronic warfare system. In addition, eight units of enemy equipment were damaged, in particular, two self-propelled guns and a 122-caliber howitzer, a tank and an armored vehicle.