In the Pokrovsky direction, there were 72 combat clashes per day – General Staff

235 combat clashes took place at the front during the past 24 hours, most of which were in the Pokrovsky direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in the morning summary on December 21.

“In the Pokrovsky direction, 72 combat clashes took place in the areas of Nikanorivka, Shakhove, Myrnograd, Rodynske, Pokrovsk, Kotlyne, Udachne, Molodetske, Novosergiivka, Dachne, and in the direction of Novopavlivka,” the report says.

According to the General Staff, Russian attacks were also in the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk, South-Slobozhansk, Kupyansk, Lymansk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivsk, Oleksandrivsk, Gulyaipilsk, Orichivsk and Prydniprovsk directions.

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

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.