“The largest number of Russian assaults (49) was in the Pokrovsky direction, according to the data of the General Staff”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 49 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Nikanorivka, Razine, Novoeconomichne, Zvirov, Kotlyna, Udachne, Novomykolaivka and in the direction of Sofiivka, Kucherovo Yar, Novy Shahovo, Novy Donbas, Ivanivka, Rodinsky, Sukhetsky, Krasnoy Liman, Mirnograd, Pokrovsk, Hryshyn, Molodetsky, Novopavlivky, Filii”, the message reads.
In addition, according to the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there were 27 Russian attacks in the Lymansky direction, 23 in the Kostiantynivskyi direction, and 22 each in the Oleksandrivskyi and Gulyaipilskyi directions.
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Fighting also continued in the Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Orihiv, Prydniprovsk, Kupyansk, North-Slobozhansk and Kursk, South-Slobozhansk directions.
“Yesterday, the enemy carried out 38 airstrikes, dropped 94 guided air bombs. In addition, it carried out 3,607 attacks, including 130 from rocket salvo systems, and engaged 3,622 kamikaze drones to destroy them,” the message reads.
On December 9, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi said that the defense of Pokrovsk continues, Ukrainian troops control almost 13 square meters in the north of the city. kilometers, and Myrnograd is not surrounded.
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.