The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: there were 130 battles at the front, most of them in the Pokrovsky and Gulyaipil directions

Since the beginning of the day, 130 combat clashes have taken place at the front, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in the evening summary.

The largest number of battles are recorded again in the Pokrovsky direction, where the Russian forces made 30 attempts to push Ukrainian units near the settlements of Shakhove, Fedorivka, Rodynske, Mirnograd, Pokrovsk, Kotlyna, Udachne, and towards Filia and Novopavlivka. Three skirmishes are ongoing.

A little less – 25 Russian attacks – were repulsed by Ukrainian soldiers near Gulyaipol and in the direction of Dobropill and Varvarivka, in some locations the fighting does not stop – we are talking about the Gulyaipil direction.

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According to the headquarters, in the direction of Kostyantynivka, Russian forces stormed the positions of Ukrainian defenders 13 times today in the areas of the settlements of Oleksandro-Shultine, Pleshchiivka, Ivanopillia, Brestok, Yablunivka, and in the direction of Sofiivka.

The Russian army broke through to the north of the Pokrovsk city boundary and was able to gain a foothold there, the DeepState project reported on January 11. A “wedge” appeared on the map of hostilities in the direction of Rodinsky, which already extends beyond the city limits.

Pokrovsk – a city with a population of about 1,250 people (estimated by 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 last year.