““In the Pokrovsky direction, during this day, the aggressor attacked our positions 74 times,” the command stated”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“In the Pokrovsky direction, during this day, the aggressor attacked our positions 74 times in the areas of the settlements of Baranivka, Zelene Pole, Elizavetivka, Tarasivka, Nova Poltava, Novotoretske, Lysivka, Myrnograd, Zelene, Novy Trud, Promin, Pokrovsk, Shevchenko, Udachne, Novovasylivka, Uspenivka, Petropavlivka, Novoandriivka, Slavyanka, Silver, Andriivka, Kurakhove, Dachne and Yantarne. “Five clashes are still ongoing,” the message reads.
In Kurshchyna in the Russian Federation, according to the General Staff, Ukrainian forces “successfully repulsed” 11 enemy attacks.
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In addition, hostilities continued in the Kharkiv, Kupyan, Lyman, Siver, Kramatorsk, Toretsk, and Novopavliv directions, the summary states.
The DeepState project and the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported that the Russian army in the first days of 2025 is actively capturing new territories to the south, southeast and east of Pokrovsk.
Former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (2014–2019), Viktor Muzhenko, told Radio Svoboda in an interview that Russia does not aim to capture Pokrovsk directly, but seeks to blockade the city. According to him, the blockade of Pokrovsk “is more beneficial for the Russian army, as it allows to minimize its own losses and at the same time creates significant problems for the defense of Ukrainian forces.”
Subsequently, these intentions of the Russian troops were confirmed by the spokesman of the Khortytsia operational-strategic troop group, Viktor Tregubov. According to him, Russian troops are trying to bypass the city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region in order to break the logistical chains and thus take the city into an operational environment.