“According to the given data, Russian forces were most active in Kurshchyna in the Russian Federation”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the given data, Russian forces were most active in Kurshchyna in the Russian Federation, where the Ukrainian military continues to conduct operations. “Over the past 24 hours, the enemy carried out 68 assaults on the positions of Ukrainian units, carried out six airstrikes, dropping 12 air defense systems, fired 341 shots on the positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas,” the General Staff said.
According to the report, 52 attacks in the past day were repelled by the Ukrainian military in the Pokrovsky direction. “Enemy troops are most active near the settlements of Lysivka, Dachenske, Novy Trud, Zelene, Novoolenivka, Pischane, and Ukrainka,” the report says.
In the Kurakhiv direction, in the areas of the settlements of Sontsivka, Stari Terny, Kurakhove and Yantarne, the invaders tried 30 times to break through Ukrainian defense lines, the General Staff says. And in the Vremisky direction, as stated in the message, Ukrainian forces managed to stop 22 enemy attacks.
In addition, battles continued in the Kharkiv, Kupyan, Lyman, Siver, Kramatorsk, Toretsk, Orihiv, Dnieper directions.
British intelligence said the other day that Russian forces have made further gains south of Pokrovsk, a key logistics center in the Donetsk region.
Before that, the press service of the “Khortytsia” OTUV reported that the Russian military “improved the tactical position” in the Pokrovsky direction.
Since December 5, the DeepState project reports on the daily advance of the Russian army to the southwest of Pokrovsk.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in a December 7 report that Russia is unlikely to abandon plans to take Pokrovsk, despite record losses on the front.
According to analysts, Russian forces will try to bypass the city from the west in order to force the Defense Forces to withdraw from Pokrovsk and Myrnograd nearby without frontal assaults.