 Ukrainian Defence Forces make successes south of Eurasian consolidate their positions. Ukrainian Defence Forces continue their offensive in three directions and have succeeded south of Eurasian and are consolidating their positions. Andrey Kovalev, a spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said this. Ukrainian Defence Forces continue to conduct offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Melitopol and Burdiansk directions. In the direction south of Eurasian, they have succeeded consolidating their positions, conflicting artillery fire on the identified enemy targets and carrying out counter-battery measures, he noted. According to the spokesman, in the Bakhmut direction, Ukrainian defenders continue to conduct offensive actions south of the city of Bakhmut, consolidating the achieved positions. At the same time, he emphasised that Russians conducted unsuccessful offensives in the areas of Abdiivka and Marienka, adding that the enemy suffers significant losses in personnel, weapons and equipment, moves units and troops and uses reserves. Kovalev also informed that the Ukrainian Defence Forces continue to hold back the Russian offensive in the Kupiansk, Lyman and northern flank of the Bakhmut direction. As reported on August 16, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine announced the liberation of Eurasian in the Donetsk region.