- 1Ukraine's General Staff reported 168 combat clashes on Nov. 12.
- 2It said Russia launched one missile strike and 47 air strikes and dropped 157 guided aerial bombs.
- 3The General Staff said Russia used 5,125 kamikaze drones and made 1,529 shelling attacks.
- 4Ukrainian troops repelled 12 attacks on the Kostiantynivka axis, per the General Staff summary.
Ukraine's General Staff reported 168 combat clashes along the front on Nov. 12, according to Ukrainian outlets UNN and LB.ua, which cite the military's daily summary. The figures are Ukrainian military claims and were not independently verified in the sources reviewed.
UNN and LB.ua report these figures from the General Staff's daily summary. They are Ukrainian military claims, and the sources contain no independent confirmation.
What the General Staff reports
The General Staff said Russian forces carried out one missile strike and 47 air strikes, and dropped 157 guided aerial bombs. It added that Russia used 5,125 kamikaze drones and shelled settlements and Ukrainian positions 1,529 times, according to UNN and LB.ua.
By axis, the summary lists one attack on the South Slobozhansky axis, four clashes on the Lyman axis (one still ongoing), and two on the Sloviansk axis. It reports one assault stopped on the Kramatorsk axis. On the Kostiantynivka axis, Ukrainian troops repelled 12 attacks, and 11 clashes took place on the Pokrovsk axis.
For the Pokrovsk axis, the General Staff's preliminary count, as reported by LB.ua and UNN, is 53 Russian troops eliminated and 24 wounded. The censor.net headline also names the Huliaipole axis among the directions attacked.
What remains unverified
The sources relay only the Ukrainian General Staff's figures. They contain no Russian account or independent confirmation of the clash, strike, drone or loss counts.
- Combat clashes on the front on Nov. 12, per the General Staff
- 168
- Kamikaze drones used by Russia, per the General Staff
- 5125
- Guided aerial bombs dropped, per the General Staff
- 157
- Shelling attacks on settlements and positions, per the General Staff
- 1529
Reported from 3 published sources (UNN, LB.ua, censor.net). Facts, figures and quotes come only from those sources. Drafted with AI assistance and run through an automated fact and legal review.
- General Staff reports 168 clashes and over 5,000 drones in a day: where the front is hottest (in Ukrainian) · UNN
- General Staff: 168 clashes have taken place on the front since the start of the day (in Ukrainian) · LB.ua
- 168 clashes since the start of the day: occupiers attacked on the Kostiantynivka, Pokrovsk and Huliaipole axes, General Staff says (in Ukrainian) · censor.net
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