“According to the headquarters, since the beginning of the day, Russian forces have made 31 attempts to dislodge Ukrainian defenders from their positions in the Pokrovsky area”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the headquarters, in the Pokrovsky direction since the beginning of the day, Russian forces have made 31 attempts to dislodge Ukrainian defenders from their occupied positions in the areas of Vodiane Druge, Zelene Pole, Elizavetivka, Myrolyubivka, Promin, Lysivka, Novy Trud, Pokrovsk, Shevchenko, Zvirove, Kotlyne, Uspenivka, Petropavlivka, Andriivka, Kurakhove, Dachne and Yantarne. One battle is still going on.
In the Kursk region, where the operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is ongoing, Ukrainian soldiers repelled eight Russian attacks today, and three more clashes are currently ongoing.
Also, Russian troops continue their attacks in the Kupyan, Lyman, Siver, Kramatorsk, Novopavlovsk, Orihiv and Dnieper directions.
In the Kharkiv and Gulyaipil directions, the enemy has not carried out active operations since the beginning of the day.
The day before, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said in an interview with Polish mass media that the most difficult situation on the front is in the east of Ukraine, where there is currently a large concentration of Russian troops and equipment, and where the Ukrainian military is smaller. The President added that there is a lack of aid at the front and, above all, it is not a question of the number of people – currently there are brigades that are staffed with 60-70% weapons due to the delay in the delivery of aid from Ukraine’s partners.
According to the observations of the Institute for the Study of War on January 13, Russian troops are cutting roads to the east and west of Pokrovsk in an attempt to surround the city.
The DeepState project and the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported that the Russian army in the first days of 2025 is actively capturing new territories to the south, southeast and east of Pokrovsk.
Viktor Tregubov, the spokesman for the Khortytsia operational-strategic group of troops, reported that Russian troops are trying to bypass the city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region in order to break logistical chains and take the city under operational encirclement.