“Over the past 24 hours, 170 combat clashes have been recorded at the front, most of them in the Pokrovsky direction, where Ukrainian forces repelled 45 attacks. The General Staff reports on massive shelling and airstrikes, as well as on the difficult situation in the Kostyantynivsk direction in the Donetsk region”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Yesterday, the enemy launched three rocket and 62 air strikes, used three rockets and dropped 177 guided air bombs. In addition, it carried out 4,301 attacks, including 121 from rocket salvo systems, and engaged 5,251 kamikaze drones for destruction. Over the past 24 hours, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces have hit one enemy cannon,” the morning summary says.
More than a quarter of the battles took place in the Pokrovsky direction in the Donetsk region.
“In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 45 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Nove Shakhove, Chervyn Liman, Myrnograd, Novoeconomichne, Nikanorivka, Rodynske, Pokrovsk, Kotlyne, Udachne, Molodetske, Novopavlivka, Filia, and in the direction of Sofiyvka, Bilytskyi, and Gryshiny,” the message states.
The situation in the Kostyantynivskyi direction in Donetsk region is also complicated.
“In the direction of Kostyantynivka, the enemy carried out 29 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Kostyantynivka, Oleksandro-Shultine, Pleshchiivka, Shcherbynivka, Kleban-Byk, Rusyn Yar and in the directions of Novopavlivka, Stepanivka, and Torskoho,” the Ukrainian military added.
Battles also continued in the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk, South-Slobozhansk, Kupyansk, Lymansk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Oleksandrivsk, Gulyaipil and Prydniprovsk directions.
The Russian side, in particular the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, has repeatedly announced the capture of Pokrovsk. The authorities of Ukraine deny such reports.
As of December 3, the DeepState project writes about the advance of Russian forces in Pokrovsk.
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.