“More than 100 battles were recorded in only two directions in Donetsk region – Pokrovsky and adjacent to Novopavlovsky”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Yesterday, the enemy struck the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements of three missile strokes with the use of eight missiles, as well as 83 air strikes, including 139 managed aviation bombs. In addition, he made 5928 shellings, 122 of them from the rocket launcher systems, and attracted 5928 Dronov-Kamikadze to defeat … Yesterday aviation, missile troops and artillery of defense forces struck two artillery systems, 10 areas of concentration of personnel, armaments and military equipment and one.
More than 100 battles were recorded only in two directions in Donetsk region – Pokrovsky and adjacent to Novopavlovsky.
“In the Pokrovsky direction our defenders stopped 67 attacks of the aggressor in the areas of settlements of Popi Yar, Poltava, Mirne, Malynivka, Mirolyubivka, Razine, Lisivka, Shevchenko, Zarov, Lucky, Ray, Novosergiyivka, Ohravka, and Glovka Novopavlivka.
In the Novopavlovsky direction, the forces of defense reflected 36 enemy storms near the settlements of Zaporizhzhia, Poddubne, Mirne, Komar, Voskresenko, Shevchenko, Green Field, Free Field and Novopol, ”the message said.
The fighting also lasted in the North Slobozhansky and Kursk, South Slobozhansky, Kupyansk, Lyman, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Toretsky, Gulyaypil and Dnieper directions.
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.