““In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 89 assault actions of the aggressor””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the given data, the Russian forces carried out the most assaults in the Pokrovsky direction.
“In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 89 assaults of the aggressor towards the settlements of Zelene Pole, Oleksandropol, Vodyane Druge, Elizavetivka, Myrolyubivka, Promin, Lysivka, Myrnograd, Pokrovsk, Zvirove, Shevchenko, Udachne, Uspenivka, Kotlyne, Nadiivka, Novotroitske, Novoandriivka , Slovianka, Petropavlivka, Andriivka, Dachne, Ulakly and Yantarne,” the message says.
Battles also continued in the Kharkiv, Kupyan, Lyman, Siver, Kramatorsk, Toretsk, Novopavliv, Orihiv, Dnieper directions and in Kurshchyna.
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The other day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said in an interview with Polish mass media that the most difficult situation on the front is in the east of Ukraine, where there is currently a large concentration of Russian troops and equipment, and where the Ukrainian military is smaller. The President added that there is not enough aid at the front and, according to him, it is primarily not a matter of the number of people – currently there are brigades that are staffed with 60-70% weapons due to the delay in the delivery of aid from Ukraine’s partners.
According to the observations of the Institute for the Study of War on January 13, Russian troops are cutting roads to the east and west of Pokrovsk in an attempt to surround the city.
The DeepState project and the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported that the Russian army in the first days of 2025 is actively capturing new territories to the south, southeast and east of Pokrovsk.