“Over the past 24 hours, 141 combat clashes have been recorded at the front, most of them in the Pokrovsky and Gulyaipil directions, where the Ukrainian defense forces repelled dozens of attacks by Russian troops, reports the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Yesterday, the enemy launched four missile and 42 air strikes against the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements, used 25 missiles and dropped 78 guided bombs. In addition, 7,967 kamikaze drones were used to destroy and 3,768 attacks were carried out on the positions of our troops and populated areas, of which 74 were from rocket salvo fire systems… Aviation and missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces hit two control points, eight areas of concentration of enemy personnel and equipment, four artillery systems and two control points of UAVs,” the statement said. morning erection.
Almost half of the battles took place in two directions – Pokrovsky in Donetsk region and Gulyaipilsky in Zaporizhzhia.
“In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 39 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of Shakhove, Fedorivka, Rodynske, Myrnograd, Pokrovsk, Kotlyna, Udachne and in the direction of Filia and Novopavlivka.
In the direction of Gulyaipol, the Defense Forces repelled 26 attacks by Russians in the Gulyaipol area and towards Dobropill and Varvarivka,” the message states.
Fighting also continued in the South-Slobozhansk, Kupyansk, Lymansk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivsk, Oleksandrivsk, and Prydniprovsk directions.
The Russian army broke through to the north of the Pokrovsk city boundary and was able to gain a foothold there, the DeepState project reported on January 11. A “wedge” appeared on the map of hostilities in the direction of Rodinsky, which already extends beyond the city limits.
Pokrovsk – a city with a population of about 1,250 people (estimated by 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 last year.