General Staff: there were 93 skirmishes at the front since the beginning of the day

Since the beginning of this day, 93 combat clashes have taken place at the front, about a third of them in the Pokrovsky direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in a summary as of 4:00 p.m. on November 6.

“In the Pokrovsky direction, the Russian invaders made 32 attempts to dislodge our defenders from their occupied positions in the areas of the settlements of Chervyn Liman, Myrnograd, Nikanorivka, Rodynske, Dorozhne, Novopavlivka, Novoeconomichne, Lysivka, Pokrovsk, Kotlyne, Udachne, Molodetske, Filia. The defense forces are restraining the onslaught and have already repelled 26 enemy attacks, six combat clashes are ongoing,” the command noted and added that the Ukrainian military is continuing strike and search operations in the Pokrovsk region.

In addition, according to the report, hostilities continued in the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk directions, in the South-Slobozhansk, Kupyansk, Lymansk, Slovyansk, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynovsky, Oleksandrivsk, Gulyaipilsk, Prydniprovsk directions.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine declared on November 5 that the defense of the Pokrovsko-Myrnograd agglomeration continues, and “there is no encirclement of our units and units.”

Before that, the American Institute for the Study of War stated in its report that Russian troops continue to advance in the Pokrovsky direction and operate “with increasing comfort” inside the city itself. At the same time, Ukrainian troops continue defensive efforts and counterattacks in the Pokrovsky direction, and also liberated a significant part of the territory, where the Russian troops penetrated, in the Dobropilsky direction.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi said on November 3 that the Ukrainian military is increasing the pressure on the Dobropil ledge. According to him, this forces the Russian army to scatter its forces and makes it impossible to concentrate the main efforts in the Pokrovsk region.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyi reported that the Pokrovsky direction accounts for about a third of all combat operations on the front, as well as 50% of all uses of guided aerial bombs by Russian troops.

Pokrovsk – a city with a population of about 1,250 people (estimated by the local authorities at the end of October, before the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation – more than 60,000) – is an important road and railway junction and was under threat of encirclement by Russian troops for most of the year.