“The most difficult situation is now in the Pokrovsky and Kurakhiv directions”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“As of December 17, the Defense Forces are conducting active combat operations on a section of the front with a total length of more than 1,170 kilometers. The most difficult situation is now in the Pokrovsky and Kurakhiv directions,” he said during an online speech at a meeting of the Congress of local and regional authorities.
Also, according to him, the forces of the Russian Federation have significantly increased the pressure on the Kramatorsk, Toretsk and Vremivsk directions, for the third day they are conducting intensive offensive actions on the territory of the Kursk region with the aim of ousting units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine from the territory of the Russian Federation.
In addition, Syrsky emphasized the great importance of engineering and fortification structures – 21 regional military administrations and contracting organizations are involved in their construction, and seven regions should strengthen work on fortification.
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British intelligence said on December 15 that Russian forces had made further gains south of Pokrovsk, a key logistics center in Donetsk region.
According to the project of Radio Liberty Donbas.Realii, the main battle of the winter will obviously be the battle for Pokrovsk, to which the Russian army is approaching from the south and southeast.