“In the Lyman direction, Russian forces attacked 12 times, trying to penetrate our defenses in the area of Srednyi and in the direction of Novy Mir, Novoselivka, Drobyshevy, and Zarichny”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
The command noted that two combat clashes took place in the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk directions. The enemy carried out two airstrikes, dropped four guided aerial bombs and launched 135 attacks, including two from rocket salvo systems.
“In the South-Slobozhansk direction, our troops stopped nine enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Prylipka, Vovchansk and towards the settlements of Synelnikove and Vilcha. Two attacks by invaders took place in the Kupyansk direction yesterday. Our defenders repelled the enemy’s assaults towards the settlements of Pishchane and Monachynivka,” the operative report says.
In addition, in the Lyman direction, Russian forces attacked 12 times, trying to penetrate our defenses in the area of Srednyi and in the direction of Novy Mir, Novoselivka, Drobyshevy, and Zarichny.
“In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 44 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of Udachne, Kotlyna, Novomykolaivka, Dachne and towards Sofiivka, Kucherovoy Yar, Novy-Shakhovy, Sukhetskyi, Bilytskyi, Rodinskyi, Mirnograd, Pokrovsk, Gryshnyi, Molodetskyi, Novopavlivka,” the General Staff said.
On December 9, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi said that the defense of Pokrovsk continues, Ukrainian troops control almost 13 square meters in the north of the city. kilometers, and Myrnograd is not surrounded.
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.