“Intense combat clashes are ongoing on the front: 78 clashes have been recorded since the beginning of the day on October 13, including more than a third – in the Pokrovsky direction”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“The areas of settlements, including Kucherivka, Starykovo, Schaligyne of Sumy region, were injured from Russian artillery shellings,” – said at 16:00.
More than a third of the fighting is recorded in the Pokrovsky direction in Donetsk region.
“In the Pokrovsky direction, Russian troops tried 31 times to go to the positions of our troops in the areas of settlements of Vladimir, Red Lyman, Mirnograd, Rodinsky, New Economic, Balagan, Pokrovsk, Zarov, Kotlyne, Lucky, Military, Youthful, Dachna and in the direction of Novopavlivka. Our defenders have already repelled 24 attacks, ”the message stated.
The fighting also lasted in the North Slobozhansky and Kursk, South Slobozhansky, Kupyansk, Lymansky, Slavyansk, Konstantinovsky, Oleksandrivsky, Orikhiv and Dnieper directions.
The day before, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that the Ukrainian forces had advanced more than three kilometers in the Zaporozhye direction near Orikhov. In addition, he said, a counter -offensive operation in the Dobropil direction continues.
On October 1, the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that the Ukrainian military dissected the so -called “Dobropilsky speech” of Russian troops.
According to the observations of British intelligence, given in September, Pokrovsk as a logistics center in Donetsk remains the main point of Russian offensive operations. It restrains Russia’s promotion further in the Donetsk region and in the direction of Kramatorsk and Slavyansk.