16 August 2024 in Russo-Ukrainian war

• The Russians announced the work of air defense in Sevastopol
• The Russians said that the Crimean Bridge was attacked by 12 ATACMS missiles
• The Russians attacked Nikopol, damaged the infrastructure and the enterprise
• The Russians reported on the attack of UAVs and unmanned boats in Crimea
• The USA stated that the Russian Federation had transferred thousands of troops from the occupied territories to Kurshchyna
• In Croatia, the fixed-term service of citizens is being returned from 2025
• The US State Department supported the $5 billion sale of Patriot missiles to Germany
• Kazakhstan declared that it will not comply with all sanctions against the Russian Federation
• The Bundestag called to provide Ukraine with Fuchs armored vehicles
• British intelligence: the Russian Federation has begun building additional defensive positions in the Kursk region
• US banks block the accounts of customers for attempts to make a payment from the Russian Federation
• Head of the Ministry of Defense of Spain: Ukraine itself determines how to use the received weapons
• Air defense forces shot down two Russian missiles in the sky over Dnipropetrovsk region
• London handed Ukraine more than 200 cars, which were handed over for disposal through eco-cars
• The Russians attacked a police car in the Mykolaiv region with a drone, the patrol officers were injured
• Russia threatens Italian journalists who shot a report in the Kursk region
• The Russians destroyed a MiG-29 in the Dnipro, but without loss of life
• The occupiers dropped explosives on Beryslav in the Kherson region, there is an injured person
• There were 99 clashes at the front during the day, 28 of them in the Pokrovsky direction
• Almost 300 enemy UAVs of various modifications attacked the Zaporizhzhia region during the day
• The Armed Forces took control of Borka of the Kursk region
• ISW: Ukrainian troops advanced to the southeast of Suja in Kurshchyna
• Russia lost more than 1,200 soldiers per day