General Staff: There were 125 collisions on the front per day, most in Pokrovsky direction

125 combat clashes were recorded at the front during the last day, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in the morning summarizing on April 17.

It is reported that the most fighting was in the Pokrovsky direction. “Our defenders stopped 29 assaults and offensive actions of the aggressor in the areas of settlements Alexandropil, Elizabeth, Lisivka, Zarovka, Uspenivka, Novo Aleksandrivka, Transfiguration, Trinity, Andriyivka, Bogdanivka, Star Nikolaevka.

According to the command, the actions also lasted in Kharkiv, Kupyansk, Lymansky, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Toretsky, Novopavlovsky, Orikhiv, Dnieper, 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.

On March 26, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin was “trying to win time and prepares for a spring offensive.” According to him, “Putin prepares a new offensive, in particular in Sumy and Kharkiv region.”

On April 9, in an interview with Lb.ua, the commander -in -chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky stated that the new offensive of Russian troops in Sumy region and Kharkiv “actually began”.