There were 79 combatants at the front from the beginning

79 combat clashes were recorded at the front from the beginning of the day, about a third of them in the Pokrovsky direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported in the summary at 16:00 on August 9.

“In the Pokrovsky direction, from the beginning of the day, the occupiers made 26 attempts to squeeze our defenders from the positions in the areas of settlements of Poltavka, New Economic, Miroubivka, Zarovoye, Lucky, Dachne, and towards the settlements of Novoukrainka, Pokrovsk, Sukhetsky, Combushes. Defense forces restrain the pressure of the enemy and reflect 24 attacks, two combatants are still ongoing, ”the message reads.

In addition, according to the General Staff, Russian attacks were also recorded on Novopavlovsky, Liman, Toretsky, North-Slobozhansky, Kursk, South Slobozhansky, Kupyansk, Siversky, Gulyaypil, Orikhiv, Dnieper.

The Pokrovsky direction in the Donetsk region is one of the hottest areas of the front. Over the last year, the largest number of combat clashes is mainly recorded there.

On July 26, the spokesman of Khortytsia reported that, although the Pokrovsky direction remains the most intense, the main purpose of the Russian troops has now changed: “If in the winter it was more about the western neighborhoods, that to the west and south of Pokrovsk, now the main mission of the Russian From the East. ”

As reported on July 29 by the Project of Radio Liberty “News of the Azov”, a spokesman for the southern defense forces Vladislav Voloshin, Russian troops are trying to create a “strip of death” along the line of combat in the rear of the Armed Forces – in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya directions.