“Most of the Russian attacks were in the Pokrovsk and Gulyaipil directions”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 40 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Rodynske, Pokrovsk, Myrnograd, Kotlyna, Udachne, Zatyshok, Filia and in the direction of Bilytskyi, Sergiyivka, Kucherovo Yar… In the Gulyaipilsk direction, our defenders stopped 36 enemy attempts to advance in the areas of the settlements of Gulyaipole, Uspenivka, Dorozhnyanka and in the direction Dobropill, Zeleny,” the message reads.
In addition, according to the General Staff, 22 Russian attacks were in the Lymansky direction, 21 in the Oleksandrivskyi direction, 19 in the Yuzhno-Slobozhanskyi direction, and 18 in the Kostiantynivskyi direction.
Fighting also continued in the Kupyan, Slovian, Orihiv and Dnieper directions.
According to the American Institute for the Study of War, Russian forces increased their average rate of advance in 2025 thanks to the new operational pattern, but did not achieve their priority objectives in the specified time frames.
On December 17, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said that the enemy had increased the group to the number of about 710,000 soldiers in order to conduct a strategic offensive operation.
According to him, the Russian troops have been trying to capture Pokrovsk in Donetsk region for more than 17 months, but Ukrainian units are holding the defense and intercepting the initiative.