The Ukrainian military confirmed Yats'kivka is liberated. This settlement is in the north of Donetsk region.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have advanced at least 10 km farther.
If they remain, the rashists risk a minor encirclement at Drobysheve and a grand encirclement in Lyman.
It is said that Putin is personally directing the Battle of Lyman. That's good news if true because he's a military moron.
The sensible thing to do is withdraw RU forces to prepared defences at Zarichne, then Keminna. Instead they're in forward positions at Drobysheve and Lyman.
Russian channels are reporting that two battalions of mercenaries – "BARS-13" and "BARS-16" – are surrounded in Drobysheve.
«БАРС» units were raised after the broad offensive began seven months ago. These contract soldiers are lightly-armed, poorly-led and have low morale.
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In the south-west of Ukraine, the Russian terrorist state attacked civilians extensively. In Mykolayiv district and Bashtan districts, Ukrainian defenders shot down five "kamikaze" combat UAVs supplied by the Iranian terrorist state.
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In Mykolayiv and Kherson regions, the Ukrainian air force made 13 strikes on the Russian fascist invaders.
Ukrainian artillery units completed about 280 fire missions on rashist positions and strategic assets.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit control points in Beryslav and Nova Kakhovka, troop and equipment concentrations in Kherson and Kakhovka districts, and an ammunition depot in Beryslav district.
A rashist column was hit while attempting to cross the bridge at Nova Kakhovka.
In the sky above Charivne, in Kherson region, an Su-25 assault aircraft of the russian fascist invaders was destroyed by Ukrainian forces.
Two "Orlan-10" reconnaissance UAVs of the rashists were shot down near Murakhivka in Mykolayiv region.
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Ukrainian artillery worked more than 210 fire missions at the enemy in Beryslav district, troop and equipment concentrations in Havrylivka and Chornobayivka, on the bridge at Dar'yivka, on the pontoon crossing near Nova Kakhovka, and on the bridge at Nova Kakhovka.
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Ukrainian defenders inflicted losses on the russian fascist invaders: 151 rashist militants; 7 tanks; 19 armoured vehicles; 4 howitzers (including self-propelled "Msta-S" and towed "Msta-B"); 2 self-propelled "Akatsiya" self-propelled guns; and 4 other self-propelled guns.
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In Mykolayiv and Kherson regions, the Ukrainian air force made 15 strikes against positions and assets of the russian fascist invaders. Two reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles, an Orlan-10 and Orlan-30, were destroyed.
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Ukrainian artillery units performed more than 260 fire missions, including on concentrations of rashist troop and equipment reserves in the Beryslav, Henichesk, Kakhovka and Kherson districts, as well as on bridges and alternative crossings (pontoons and barges).
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Ukrainian defenders inflicted losses on the russian fascist invaders: 90 rashist militants; 3 tanks; 8 armoured vehicles; 3 "Msta-B" and "Msta-S" howitzers; 4 152mm "Acacia" self-propelled guns; 2 "Hyacinth-S" self-propelled guns; and 6 "Grad" multiple-launch rocket systems.
The Ukrainian air force carried out 15 strikes on positions of the Russian fascist invaders in Kherson and Mykolayiv regions. Rocket artillery units carried out 250 fire missions.
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Ukrainian defenders struck a concentration of rashist militants and their equipment near Stara Zbur'yivka, a command post in the city of Kherson, an electronic warfare station in Nova Kakhovka, and another attempt to construct a pontoon crossing near Sadove.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine inflicted losses on the Russian fascist invaders: 33 rashist militants; two tanks; a 152mm "Msta-B" howitzer; a 120mm mobile mortar; and nine armoured vehicles.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine entered the settlement of Yarova in the north of Donetsk region. The Russian invaders are noted as shelling Ukrainian positions there.
Ukrainian defenders earlier took control of Studenok and Sosnove.
This Ukrainian push is in the direction of Lyman.
In addition to Yarova, on this battlefront the Russian fascist invaders shelled Horokhovatka, Svyatohirs'k, Tetyanivka, Pryshyb, Donets'ke, Rayhorodok, Starodubivka, Pyskunivka, Kryva Luka, Ozerne, Bilohorivka, Sivers'k, Verkhnokam'yans'ke and Spirne.
The rashists conducted air strikes, missile strikes and shelling from rocket launchers in the areas of Sivers'k and Zakitne.
On the offensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are across the Siverskyi Donets River along most of its course that lies in the north of Donetsk region.
The Russian fascist invaders of Europe launched futile attacks around the city Bakhmut, in the direction of Zaytseve, Odradivka, Vesela Dolyna and Bakhmut. The rashists were defeated by Ukrainian defenders and gained no ground.
On this battlefront the rashists shelled Kryva Luka, Ozerne, Pyskunivka, Rayhorodok, Starodubivka, Bilohorivka, Sivers'k, Spirne, Rozdolivka, Vesele, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmuts'ke, Bakhmut, Odradivka, Mykolayivka Druha, Zaytseve and New York.
Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operational information at 06:00 on 16 September 2022
RU forces also shelled Lyman "in the Bakhmut direction" but I cannot determine which settlement is meant: «на Бахмутському напрямку – Нью-Йорк, Лиман, Миколаївка Друга, …»