The General Staff reported 193 hole -ups on the front in the first day of the Creaslate declared by the Kremlin

At the front a day on May 8, when the Kremlin had to act a three -day ceasefire, 193 combat clashes were recorded, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.

It is reported that the most fighting was in the Pokrovsky direction. “Our defenders stopped 71 assault and offensive action in the areas of settlements Alexandropil, Elizabeth, Grodivka, Mirolyubivka, Dachenke, Zarov, Kotlina, Lucky, Novoleksandrivka, Kotlyarivka, Preobrazhenko and Andreevka,”

In the Novopavlovsk direction, according to the General Staff, there were 28 Russian attacks, in Lymansky – 27.

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19 Russian attacks of Ukraine’s defense forces were repelled in the Kursk direction, added to the General Staff.

The fighting also lasted in Kharkiv, Kupyansk, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Toretsky, Orikhiv and Dnieper directions.

“The enemy struck the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements of one missile and 18 aviation strikes, applied one rocket and dropped 32. In addition, he made almost 4,000 shelling, 67 of them-from the rocket launcher systems, and attracted 2659 drones-Kamikadze to defeat, ”the message reads.

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. According to the analysts of the DeepState project, in the last week about 42% of all attacks of the enemy have fallen in the Pokrovsky direction.

The Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrsky declared on April 30 that Russian troops significantly increased the intensity of hostilities, focusing basic efforts in the Pokrovsky direction, despite the Kremlin’s statements about the readiness for a three -day cease ceasefire in May.

The Kremlin said on April 28 that Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a truce on the “Days of the 80th Anniversary of Victory”-on May 8, 9 and 10.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, commenting on this proposal of the Russian Federation, reminded that Ukraine supports the idea of ​​the US on ceasefire, and also offered a 30-day pause and called Putin’s statement “another attempt to manipulate.”