“Most of the battles of the past day were in the Pokrovsky direction, where Ukrainian defenders stopped 48 assault actions of the aggressor”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the headquarters, yesterday the enemy carried out 60 airstrikes and dropped 132 guided air bombs. In addition, it carried out 4,160 attacks, including 108 from rocket salvo systems, and engaged 5,404 kamikaze drones for destruction.
Most of the battles of the past day were in the Pokrovsky direction, where Ukrainian defenders stopped 48 assaults by the aggressor in the areas of Nikanorivka, Rodynske, Chervyn Liman, Myrnograd, Novoeconomichne, Kotlyna, Udachne, Molodetske, Dachne, Lysivka, Novopavlivka, Pokrovsk, Zvirove, Novoukrainka and in the direction of Hryshiny.
There were 11 battles on each section of the front in the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk, Kupyansk, Slavyansk directions.
The enemy also continues its attacks in the South-Slobozhansk, Lymansk, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivsk, Gulyaipilsk, Orihiv and Dnieper directions.
The day before, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that the situation in Pokrovsk is difficult, 170,000 Russian troops are concentrated in this direction. At the same time, he denied the encirclement of Ukrainian troops in the city.
Last week, on October 26, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed the penetration of Russian troops into Pokrovsk.
The Russian army has advanced within the borders of Pokrovsk – this was reported by the DeepState project in the morning of October 29. On the map of the hostilities, a “red zone” has grown in the south of the city, and a “gray” zone, indicating the presence of the enemy, has reached its northern outskirts.
Pokrovsk – a city with a population of about 7,000 people (more than 60,000 before the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation) – is an important road and railway junction and was under threat of encirclement by Russian troops for most of the year.