“The most Russian attacks were in the Pokrovsky direction – Ukrainian defenders stopped 45 assault on the aggressor”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the headquarters, during the day the enemy struck on the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements of two missile and 111 aviation strikes, using three rockets and dropping 213 managed aviation bombs, made 6045 shelling, 98 of them from reactive Droz-Familm.
Most Russian attacks were in the Pokrovsky direction – Ukrainian defenders stopped 45 storms of the aggressor in the areas of settlements of Poltava, Volodymyrivka, Fedorovka, New Economic, Rodinskoye, Sukhetske, Promin, Pokrovsk, Zarovsk, Lucky, Dachna, Novoukhka, Lisovka.
21 attempts to break through the Russian Federation were made in the Lyman and Novopavlovsky directions.
The enemy also continues his attacks in the North Slobozhansky, Kursk, South Slobozhansky, Kupyansk, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Toretsky, Dnieper directions. In the Gulyaypilsky and Orikhiv directions of the last day, the anti -the next day was performed, added in the General Staff.
On August 15, the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrsky, as a result of the meeting of the Supreme Commander -in -Chief, stated that the Ukrainian forces in the Pokrovsky and Dobropilsky directions “increase the pressure on the occupiers, counteract the attempts of the enemy to move forward.”
“The necessary decisions are made to strengthen these and other areas – in the Donetsk region, in Zaporozhye, etc. … The enemy throws new” cannon meat “into battle and suffers significant losses to report it against the background of negotiations in Alaska,” he added.
On August 14, the General Staff of the Armed Forces declared the breakthrough of groups of Russian military towards the city of Dobropillya in Donetsk region, which threatened to significantly worsen the defense of Ukrainian positions both in the Pokrovsk region and near Konstantinovka. The Armed Forces talk about stabilizing the situation in the Dobropil direction.
Earlier this week, the promotion of Russian troops for almost a dozen kilometers in the direction of Dobropillya on August 11 marked on his map the analytical project of Deepstate. The spokesman of the operative-strategic group of the Dnipro troops, Lieutenant Colonel Victor Tregubov the next day stated that in Dobropil and Pokrovsky directions Russian troops use the tactics of “impregnation”, which creates a false impression of advancement. But, he said, “impregnation” does not mean that the enemy has taken this territory under control.
On August 12, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the purpose of promoting Russian forces near Dobropillya in Donetsk is to “form a certain information space” to a meeting between US and Russia Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on August 15.