“In the Pokrovsky area, Ukrainian defenders are holding back the onslaught of the aggressor, in some locations fighting is still ongoing”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
On this section of the front, the enemy attacked in the areas of the settlements of Shakhove, Fedorivka, Rodynske, Chervyn Liman, Myrnograd, Pokrovsk, Kotlyna, Udachne, Molodetske, Dachne and towards Novopavlivka. In the Pokrovsky area, Ukrainian defenders are holding back the onslaught of the aggressor, and in some locations, fighting is still going on.
According to the headquarters, Ukrainian defenders repelled 17 Russian attacks in the areas of Zeleny Gay, Sichneve, Verbove, Rybne, Krasnohirske and Vyshneve settlements in the Oleksandrivsk direction, and 16 combat clashes took place in the Kostyantynivsk direction today.
Russian troops are also continuing their attacks in the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk, South-Slobozhansk, Kupyansk, Lymansk, Slavyansk and Orihiv directions.
At the moment, no clashes have been recorded in the Kramatorsk and Prydniprovsk directions.
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On December 1, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced on its resources the alleged capture of Pokrovsk. Donbas Realiy (a Radio Liberty project) has collected statements and data refuting the occupation of the city.
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.