“As of 4:00 p.m. on November 21, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recorded 130 combat clashes at the front, of which the largest number were in the Pokrovsky direction”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“In the Pokrovsky direction, since the beginning of the day, the Russian occupiers have made 41 attempts to dislodge our soldiers from their occupied positions in the areas of the settlements of Shakhove, Rodynske, Chervyn Liman, Novoeconomichne, Kotlyna, Udachne, Molodetske, Novomykolaivka, Dachne, Filia and towards the settlements of Novy Shakhove, Myrnograd, Grishine and Novopavlivka. The defense forces are holding back the onslaught and have already repelled 30 attacks,” the message stated.
Battles also continued in the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk, South-Slobozhansk, Kupyansk, Lymansk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivsk, Oleksandrivsk, Gulyaipilsk and Orihiv directions.
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.”
As noted on November 14 by the Radio Liberty Donbas.Realii project, Pokrovsk, an important hub of Ukrainian defense in Donetsk region, was on the verge of capture after Russian army troops managed to break through to the city.