 Ukrainian General Staff, Russia is advancing in five directions. From the morning of February the 18th, the Russian Armed Forces are concentrating their main efforts to carry out offensive operations in the directions of Krupyansk, Limansk, Bakhmut, Avdeevsk and Mina. The General Staff of Ukraine reported on this. At the same time, Ukrainian soldiers repelled the attacks of Russian Federation in 20 settlements of Lugansk, Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, the information says. The threat of further Russian missile strikes remains very high throughout Ukraine, Volin, Polissia, Sivershina and Slobazan-Chichnya axes. The enemy continues to hold certain units in the areas, bordering Ukraine but no offensive groups have been detected. The training of units and Russian troops continues at the training grounds of the Republic of Belarus. The enemy does not stop mortar and artillery shelling of the positions of our units as well as settlements along the state border of Ukraine. The enemy continues to suffer losses. Thus, in the village of Kalanchak, Kersen Oblast, the occupiers converted the Central District Hospital into a military hospital and brought 36 dead and 18 wounded servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.