“Pokrovsky direction in Donetsk remains one of the hottest areas of the front”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“In the Pokrovsky direction, the enemy made 45 attempts to squeeze our units. The greatest activity is observed in the areas of settlements of the priests of ravines, the new economic, peaceful, the ray, Novosergiivka, good luck, ant, Novoukrainka, dacha, Kotline, nut, Oleksiyivka, Malynivka, Lisivka, Shevchenko and in the direction of Pokrovskaya, Sergiyivka. There are three combatants. Aviation of the aggressor struck the Kabami in the areas of settlements of Volodymyrivka, Rodinskoe, Novooleksandrivka, Novopavlivka, Suvorove and Pokrovsk, ”the message reads.
According to the Armed Forces command, Russian troops stormed the positions of Ukrainian forces 32 times.
In addition, the fighting was recorded in the North Slobozhansky, Kursk, South Slobozhansky, Kupyansk, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Toretsky, Novopavlovsky, Orikhiv, Dnieper.
“The enemy struck 57 aircraft blows, dropped 82 cabin, made 1178 blows with drones-Kamikadze and 3972 shelling of the positions of our troops,”-the message reads.
The project of Radio Liberty Donbass.Realia in May reported that Russia in the Donbass intensified the offensive in several directions, seeking to surround Konstantinovka – an important railway knot and a stronghold of Ukrainian defense.
The American Institute for the Study of the War in its report, published on the night of July 8, suggested that Russian troops were changing the priorities of the offensive in the Pokrovsky direction after several weeks of unsuccessful attempts to move to Konstantinovka. According to ISW, the command of the Russian Federation will try to force Ukrainian troops to retreat from Pokrovsk and Mirnohrad under the threat of environment before reorganizing in the Konstantinovsky direction.
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.