General Staff: From the beginning of the day more than a third of all clashes at the front was in the Pokrovsky direction

69 combat clashes were recorded at the front from the beginning of the day, more than a third of them in the Pokrovsky direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported in the summary at 16:00 on August 7.

“In the Pokrovsky direction, since the beginning of the day, Russian invaders have made 24 attempts to slip our soldiers from the positions in the areas of settlements of Poltava, Boykivka, Mykolaivka, New Economic, Rodinskoe, Sukhetske, Lisivka, Reserve, Zapor, Kotliv, Kotlyn, Lucky. Defense forces restrain the pressure and have already repelled 22 attacks, ”the message reads.

According to command, the fighting was also recorded in the North Slobozhansky, Kursk, South Slobozhansky, Kupyansk, Lymansky, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Toretsky, Novopavlovsky, Orikhiv directions.

The Pokrovsky direction in the Donetsk region is one of the hottest areas of the front. Over the last year, the largest number of combat clashes is mainly recorded there.

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. ”