“The main fights are in the Pokrovsky and Novopavlovsky directions, where the forces of the Russian Federation try to break through the defense of the Armed Forces”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Today, Russian troops have inflicted 55 aviation strikes, dropping 98 managed airbombs. In addition, 2032 Kamikadze drones were attracted to the strikes and 3475 shelling of the positions of our troops and settlements were carried out, ”-reads as of 22:00.
More than half of the fighting is recorded in the Pokrovsky and adjacent of them in the Novopavlovsky directions in Donetsk region.
“In the Pokrovsky direction, from the beginning of the day, the occupiers have tried to move 47 times to the positions of Ukrainian units. The enemy attacked in the areas of settlements Volodymyrivka, Nikanorivka, Rodinskoye, New Economic, Ray, Lisivka, Pokrovsk, Kotline, Youthful, Lucky, Dachne, Red Lyman, Novopavlovka. In three locations, the fights do not subside.
In the Novopavlovsky direction, the aggressor tried to break through the defense of our defenders 28 times in the areas of settlements Branch, Voskresenko, Berezove, Maliyivka, Novanivka, Poddubne, Green Guy, Tolstoy, January, Novomykolaivka and Olgiv. Six ammunition is ongoing, ”the message is stated.
The fighting also lasted in the North Slobozhansky and Kursk, South Slobozhansky, Kupyansk, Lymansky, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Toretsky, Orikhiv and Dnieper directions.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said on September 18 that, within the framework of the Dobropilsk counter -offensive operation, the Ukrainian military freed 160 square kilometers and seven settlements.
At the beginning of the week, the Ukrainian military announced the clearing of the enemy of the settlement Pankivka and the surrounding area in the Dobropilsky direction.
On September 8, the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that in August, Russian troops captured 13.5 square kilometers in the Dobropilsky direction, where they created an offensive group but lost 25.5 square kilometers.
In August, the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported that in the Dobropilsk direction the settlements of Donetsk region, Rubizhne, Novovodane, Petrivka, Vesele, Golden Well were cleaned from the enemy.