“In Pokrovsky, Lyman and Novopavlovsky directions there were 104 combatants”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the staff information, yesterday the enemy struck the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements of 67 aviation strikes, dropped 123 managed aviation bombs, attracted 3712 drones-Kamikadze. The enemy also made 5756 artillery shelling, including 81 – from rocket launchers.
The largest force of the Russian Federation attacked in the Pokrovsky direction, where during the last day Ukrainian defenders stopped 61 assaulting the aggressor near the settlements of Rusyn Yar, Mirolyubivka, Comfort, Lisivka, Popi Yar, Mirnograd, Beast, Lucky, Lucky, Oleksiivka, Novoukhina, Kotatevka, Novouk. Pankivka, Volodymyrivka, Sukhetsky.
The enemy also continues his attacks in North Slobozhansky, South Slobozhansk, Kursk, Kupyansk, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Toretsky, Gulyaypil, Orikhiv and Dnieper directions.
The Pokrovsky direction in the Donetsk region remains one of the hottest areas of the front. Over the last year, the largest number of combat clashes is mainly recorded there.
The project of Radio Liberty Donbass.Realia in May reported that Russia in the Donbass intensified the offensive in several directions, seeking to surround Konstantinovka – an important railway knot and a stronghold of Ukrainian defense.
According to the American Institute for War Study (ISW), geolocation videos published on July 21 show that Russian troops have recently advanced in the Eastern Zarov and captured the rest of the sandy (both south of Pokrovsk).
The ISW report states that on July 20 and 21, Russian troops attacked near Pokrovsk himself; to the northeast of the city near Mayak, Volodymyrivka, Novotoretsky and New Economic; to the east – near Mirnograd; to the southeast – near Lisivka; to the south – near Zarov and Novoukrainka; But to the southwest – near the luck.