The General Staff of the Armed Forces: There were 120 battles on the front today, more than half – in three directions

In total, 120 combat clashes took place on the front from the beginning of this day, the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported in the evening.

According to the headquarters, most Russian troops attacked in the Pokrovsky direction – 29 times in the areas of settlements Alexandropil, Green Field, Elizabeth, Ray, Kottelne, Transfiguration, Kotlyarivka, Bogdanivka, Yasenovo, Zarov, Lucky, Oleksiyivka and Andriyivka. Ukrainian defenders repelled 25 storms, four more are continuing.

More than two dozen attacks were in the Kursk direction – the defense forces repelled 21 assaulting the Russian forces.

Also in the Toretsky direction today there were 21 combines – the enemy stormed the positions of Ukrainian units of the districts of Ozarivka, Friendship, Toretsk. There are still two combatants.

Russian attacks continue in Kharkiv, Kupyansk, Lyman, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Novopavlovsky, Gulyaypil, Orikhiv and Dnieper directions.

The Pokrovsky direction in the Donetsk region remains one of the hottest areas of the front. Over the last year, the largest number of combat clashes is recorded there.

On March 14, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the operation of the Ukrainian military in the Kurshchyna in Russia fulfilled its task: to delay Russian forces from other areas, including from the Pokrovsk Donetsk region, from Kharkiv direction and from Sumy.