“The most clashes were in Pokrovsky direction”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
The most clashes were in the Pokrovsky direction. “Our defenders stopped 57 assault and offensive actions of the aggressor in the areas of settlements of Poltava, Mirolyubivka, Mirne, Elizabeth, Lisivka, Kottelne, Lucky, Novosergiyivka, Nadikhovo, Kotlarivka, Bogdanivka and Konstantinopil,” the statement said.
In addition, according to the command, in the Novopavlovsky direction of defense forces repelled 35 Russian attacks, in Lymansky – 22, in the Kursk direction of the last day there were 28 combat clashes.
The fighting also lasted in Kharkiv, Kupyansk, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Toretsky, Gulyaypil, Orikhiv, Dnieper directions.
“The enemy struck the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements of four missile and 90 aviation strikes, using 11 rockets and dropping 141 managed bomb. In addition, he made more than 5279 shellings, of which 105 were made of rockets of volley fire, and attracted 3158 drones-Kamikadze to defeat, ”the General Staff reported.
The Pokrovsky direction in the Donetsk region remains one of the hottest areas of the front. Over the last year, the largest number of combat clashes is mainly recorded there.
On May 22, Radio Liberty Donbass reported that Russia in Donbass intensified the offensive in several directions, seeking to surround Konstantinovka – an important railway knot and a stronghold of Ukrainian defense. Russian troops are pressed by the time ravine, Toretsk and Pokrovskaya, trying to expand the front and destabilize Ukrainian defense with flank maneuvers.
Konstantinovka is the extreme southern point of the fortified line of fortresses that control the defense forces in the Donbass. In the case of its capture, the army of the Russian Federation will probably try to move further to Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk (the largest free city in Donetsk now) and Slavyansk. It is a key railway and car unit on the free Donbass, which is actively using the Armed Forces to defense the surrounding settlements.