66 battles took place on the front from the beginning of the day – the General Staff of the Armed Forces

From the beginning of the day, 66 fighting collisions took place on the front on July 31, the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported.

“Border settlements, including Bobilivka, Kucherivka, Bruski, Mariine, Ugroids, Pokrovka, Popivka, Ryasne, Lugovka of Sumy region, were injured from shelling from the territory of the Russian Federation,” – said at 16:00.

More than half of the fighting is recorded in the Pokrovsky and adjacent Novopavlovsky direction in Donetsk region.

“In the Pokrovsky direction, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers have made 28 attempts to squeeze our defenders from the positions in the areas of settlements of Poltavka, Razine, Mirolyubivka, Lisivka, Zarovka, Kottle, Kottle, Lucky, Ant, Novoukrainka, and in the direction of the settlements, Vladimirovka, Rodinkiv. Defense forces restrain the pressure of the enemy and stopped 24 attacks.

Today, in the Novopavlovsky direction, the enemy has attacked 10 times in the areas of settlements of Zaporizhzhia, Star, Poddubne, Tolstoy, Shevchenko, Novosilka, and in the direction of the settlement Temirovka. Three combat clashes are still ongoing, ”the message reads.

The fighting also lasted in the North Slobozhansky and Kursk, South Slobozhansky, Kupyansk, Lymansky, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Toretsky, Orikhiv and Dnieper directions.

On July 30, Radio Svoboda reported on July 30 in the operational-strategic group of Khortytsa troops that Russian troops advanced to Temirovka in the Novopavlovskaya direction for several kilometers, but they were not entrenched-they were rejected.

As reported by the Project of Radio Liberty “News of the Azov”, a spokesman for the South Defense Forces, Vladislav Voloshin on July 29, Russian troops are trying to create a “strip of death” along the line of combat in the rear of the Armed Forces – in Kherson and Zaporizhzhya directions.

On July 26, the spokesman of Khortytsia reported that, although the Pokrovsky direction remains the most intense, the main purpose of the Russian troops has now changed: “If in the winter it was more about the western neighborhoods, that to the west and south of Pokrovsk, now the main mission of the Russian From the East. ”