“According to the report, most of the Russian attacks were in the Pokrovsky direction”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the report, most of the Russian attacks were in the Pokrovsky direction. “Our defenders stopped 59 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Shakhove, Nove Shakhove, Zatyshok, Chervyn Lyman, Rodynske, Myrnograd, Novoeconomichne, Pischane, Zvirove, Kotlyna, Udachne, Molodetske, Novomykolaivka, Dachne and in the directions of Hryshiny and Novopavlivka,” the command informed.
In addition, there were 29 Russian attacks each in the Lyman and Oleksandriv directions, 31 in the Kostiantyniv direction, and 20 in the Gulyaipil direction.
According to the General Staff, combat operations also took place in the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk directions, in the South-Slobozhansk, Kupyansk, Slovyansk, Kramatorsk, Orihiv, Prydniprovsk directions.
“The enemy struck the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements with one missile strike using one missile, 53 air strikes, dropping 133 guided air bombs. In addition, it carried out 3,470 attacks, of which 130 were from rocket salvo systems, and engaged 2,814 kamikaze drones for destruction,” the message reads.
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The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi said on November 19 that the Defense Forces continue to carry out tasks in the area of the Pokrovsko-Myrnograd agglomeration. In the Pokrovsky direction, according to him, “high activity of the enemy remains, which is helped by clear interaction and coordination of actions of our units.”
On November 27, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces announced the blocking of Russia’s attempts to storm cities with small infantry groups. According to him, for this purpose and to restore the lost positions, certain units of the Defense Forces are conducting “active actions”. According to Syrskyi, during the last week directly in Pokrovsk, “the search and destruction of the enemy” was carried out on the territory of about 11.5 square meters.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said in an interview for Bloomberg on November 13 that “any decision on the withdrawal of troops from the city is a matter for military commanders on the ground.”
Pokrovsk – a city with a population of about 1,250 people (estimated by the local authorities at the end of October, before the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation – more than 60,000) – is an important road and railway junction and was under threat of encirclement by Russian troops for most of the year.