“The most intensive enemy continues to attack the Pokrovsky direction, where Ukrainian defenders stopped 57 assault actions”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the headquarters, yesterday the Russian forces were struck by the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements of two missile strokes with 25 rockets and 74 aircraft blows, dropped 122 managed aviation bombs, attracted 3832 drones-Kamikadze. The enemy also made 5387 artillery shelling, including 56 – from rocket launchers.
Russian troops caused air strikes, in particular in the areas of settlements of Pubkov, Stepnogorsk, Primorskoye, Belenke of Zaporizhzhya region; Cossack Kherson region and the city of Sumy.
Most intensively, the enemy continues to attack the Pokrovsky direction, where Ukrainian defenders stopped 57 assault actions of the aggressor near the settlements of Popi Yar, Volodymyrivka, Novotoretske, Mykolaivka, Lucky, Novo Economic, Lisivka, Zavorevka to Novoukrainka, Pokrovskaya, Pokrovskaya, Pokrovskaya.
Russian troops continue their attacks in the North Slobozhansky, South Slobozhansky, Kursk, Kupyansk, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Toretsky, Orikhiv directions.
Last day, there were no combat clashes in the Gulyaypil direction.
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.