General Staff about the situation on the front: the hottest situation in three directions

As of 22:00 on May 22, 119 combat clashes took place, the hottest situation was in the Pokrovsky, Lyman and Novopavlovsky directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported in the evening.

“From the beginning of the day, the enemy tried to wedge in our defense in the Pokrovsky direction in the areas of settlements Kalinovo, Ray, Lisovka, Dachenko, Shevchenko, Kotlyne, Lucky, Troitskoye, Novosergiyivka, Kotlyarivka, Silver, Andriyivka, and in directions Oleksiyivka, now is ongoing five combatants, ”the message reads.

In the Novopavlovsk direction, according to the General Staff, the Ukrainian military reflected 15 attacks a day, in the estuary there were 19 attacks, four of them continue.

In addition, according to the Armed Forces command, combat clashes took place in Kharkiv, Kupyansk, Toretsky, Gulyaypil, Orikhiv, Prydniprovsky, Kursk.

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. According to the analysts of the DeepState project, in the last week about 42% of all attacks of the enemy have fallen in the Pokrovsky direction.

The Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrsky declared on April 30 that Russian troops significantly increased the intensity of hostilities, focusing basic efforts in the Pokrovsky direction, despite the Kremlin’s statements about the readiness for a three -day cease ceasefire in May.