General Staff: There were 78 combatants from the beginning of the day at the front

There were 78 combat clashes at the front from the beginning of the day, the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported in the summary of August 19.

The most clashes were in the Pokrovsky direction. “From the beginning of the day, the Russian invaders made 32 attempts to slip our soldiers from the positions in the areas of settlements Vladimirovka, Mayak, Nikanorivka, New Economic, Red Lyman, Rodinskoye, Ray, Grodivka, Lisivka, Zarovka, Lucky, Novomykolaivka, and Novomykivka. Defense forces restrain the pressure and have already repelled 31 attacks. The hostile aviation has caused the air strike in the area of Dobropillya, ”the message reads.

In addition, according to command, Russian troops carried out attacks in North Slobozhansky, Kursk, South Slobozhansky, Kupyansk, Lymansky, Siversky, Toretsky, Novopavlovsky, Dnieper directions.

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On August 15, the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrsky, as a result of the meeting of the Supreme Commander -in -Chief, stated that the Ukrainian forces in the Pokrovsky and Dobropilsky directions “increase the pressure on the occupiers, counteract the attempts of the enemy to move forward.”

On August 14, the General Staff of the Armed Forces declared the breakthrough of groups of Russian military towards the city of Dobropillya in Donetsk region, which threatened to significantly worsen the defense of Ukrainian positions both in the Pokrovsk region and near Konstantinovka. The Armed Forces talk about stabilizing the situation in the Dobropil direction.

The promotion of Russian troops for almost a tens of kilometers in the direction of Dobropillya on August 11 marked on his map the analytical project of Deepstate. The spokesman of the operative-strategic group of the Dnipro troops, Lieutenant Colonel Victor Tregubov the next day stated that in Dobropil and Pokrovsky directions Russian troops use the tactics of “impregnation”, which creates a false impression of advancement. But, he said, “impregnation” does not mean that the enemy has taken this territory under control.