“According to the headquarters, in the Pokrovsky direction, since the beginning of the day, Russian troops have made 55 attempts to suppress Ukrainian soldiers”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the headquarters, in the Pokrovsky direction since the beginning of the day, Russian troops have made 55 attempts to dislodge Ukrainian soldiers from their occupied positions in the areas of the settlements of Volodymyrivka, Shakhove, Dorozhne, Poltavka, Sukhetske, Rodynske, Myrnograd, Chervyn Liman, Lysivka, Zvirove, Kotlyne, Udachne, Dachne and in the direction of the settlements of Pokrovsk and Novopavlovka
Since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian defenders have stopped 17 assaults by Russian troops in the Oleksandrivskyi direction.
In the Kostyantynivka direction, there were 12 attempts by the enemy to wedge into the Ukrainian defense in the areas of Oleksandr-Shultyny, Katerynivka, Shcherbynivka, Rusyny Yar, Sofiivka, and Poltavka. One battle is still going on.
In the Dnieper direction, Russian forces launched an airstrike on the settlement of Mykolaivka, and made one fruitless attempt to approach the positions of Ukrainian units in the direction of the Antonivsky bridge.
Earlier, the General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces liberated 182.8 square kilometers on the territory of the Pokrovsky district of the Donetsk region, and another 230.1 square kilometers were cleared from the enemy’s DGR.
British intelligence has reiterated that Pokrovsk is likely to remain a priority for Russia, with the largest share of Russian attacks there compared to the rest of the front line.
On October 1, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said that the Ukrainian military had cut off the so-called “Dobropilsky Protrusion” of Russian troops.