The General Staff reported 79 combatants at the front from the beginning of the day

There were 79 combat clashes from the beginning of the day, as of 16:00 the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported. It is reported that about half of the clashes were in the Pokrovsky direction.

“From the beginning of the day in the Pokrovsky direction, the enemy has made 36 attempts to squeeze our defenders from the positions in the areas of settlements Kalinovo, Ray, Lisivka, Dachenko, Shevchenko, Kotter, Lucky, Novosergiyivka, Kotlyarivka, Silver, Andreevka, and in the directions of Malivka, and in directions. The defense forces restrain the pressure and have already repelled 27 enemy attacks, ”the message reads.

In addition, the fighting continued or continued in Kharkiv, Kupyansk, Lyman, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Toretsky, Novopavlovsky, Gulyaypil, Orikhiv, Dnieper and Kursk and Kursk 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. 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.