General Staff: There were 158 collisions on the front during the day, most in the Pokrovsky direction

At the front during the last day, 158 fighting collisions took place, most of all – in the Pokrovsky direction, reported on April 14, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in the morning.

The most fighting, according to the General Staff, was in the Pokrovsky direction. “Our defenders stopped 54 storms of the aggressor in the areas of Sukha Balka, Tarasivka, Water Second, Elizabeth, Kotline, Novosergiyivka, Bogdanivka, Andriyivka and towards Staroi Mykolaivka, Zarov, Lucky and Alexander,”

21 times Russian troops attacked in Liman and Toretsky directions. The fighting also lasted in Kharkiv, Kupyansk, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Novopavlovsky, Gulyaypilsky, Orikhiv, Dnieper directions and in Kurshchyna, according to the message.

“The enemy struck the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements of one missile and 128 aviation strikes, using two missiles and dropping 213 managed bombs. In addition, he made about seven thousand shelling, of which 149-from the jet systems of volley fire, and attracted 3462 drones-Kamikadze to defeat, ”the General Staff said.

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”.