The General Staff reported 174 combat collisions at the front, most in three directions

On the front from the beginning of the day there were 174 fighting, most in the Pokrovsky direction, as of 22:00 the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported.

“In the Pokrovsky direction, the enemy made 44 attempts to squeeze our units. The greatest activity is observed in the areas of settlements of Popi Yar, Mirne, Razine, Myrolyubivka, Lisivka, Shevchenko, Zarov, Lucky, Novosergiivka, Muravka, Nutkhovo and Oleksiyivka. There are four combatants. Kabyki and Novopavlivka were shot, ”the message reads.

In the Novopavlovsk direction, according to the General Staff, Russian troops attacked 25 times, in Lymansky – 26.

In addition, the fighting was recorded in the North Slobozhansky, Kursk, South Slobozhansky, Kupyansk, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Toretsky, Gulyaypil, Dnieper directions.

“The enemy caused 3 missile and 65 aviation blows, used 18 rockets and dropped 80 cabins, made 1171 blows with Droam-Kamikadze and 3967 shelling of our troops positions,” the General Staff said.

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.

The American Institute for the Study of the War in its report, published on the night of July 8, suggested that Russian troops were changing the priorities of the offensive in the Pokrovsky direction after several weeks of unsuccessful attempts to move to Konstantinovka. According to ISW, the command of the Russian Federation will try to force Ukrainian troops to retreat from Pokrovsk and Mirnohrad under the threat of environment before reorganizing in the Konstantinovsky 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.