“The day before, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi said that the Pokrovsky direction remains the main one in the context of the Russian offensive. The largest number of daily Russian assaults is recorded there”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 81 attacks by aggressors in the areas of Shakhove, Mayak, Novoekonomichne, Novye Shakhove, Rodynske, Chervyn Liman, Myrnograd, Novogrodivka, Zelene, Kotlyna, Udachne, Molodetske, Novomykolaivka, Filia, Dachne and in the direction of Novopavlivka,” the message reads.
In addition, according to the General Staff, in the Lyman direction, Russian forces attacked 32 times, trying to advance in the areas of the settlements of Ridkodub, Grekivka, Karpivka, Zarichne, Novoselivka and in the directions of the settlements of Novy Mir, Glushchenkove, Novosergiivka, Stavky, Drobysheve, Korovyn Yar, Liman, and in the Kostyantynivka direction – they carried out 24 attacks in the areas of the settlements Oleksandro-Shultine, Pleshchiivka, Shcherbynivka, Kostyantynivka, Yablunivka, Rusyn Yar and in the direction of the settlements of Brestok and Sofiivka.
Also, hostilities continued in the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk directions, in the South-Slobozhansk, Kupyansk, Slovyansk, Kramatorsk, Oleksandrivsk, Gulyaipilsk, Orihiv, Prydniprovsk directions.
“Yesterday, the enemy launched three rocket and 36 air strikes, used three rockets, dropped 84 guided air bombs. In addition, it carried out 3,901 attacks, including 130 from rocket salvo systems, and engaged 3,762 kamikaze drones for destruction,” the command of the Armed Forces noted.
The day before, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi said that the Pokrovsky direction remains the main one in the context of the Russian offensive. The largest number of daily Russian assaults and the concentration of a significant part of the Russian group operating on the territory of Ukraine are recorded there. In particular, the Russian army is trying to take advantage of difficult weather conditions.
“Our main tasks remain the gradual control of certain areas, the support and protection of existing logistical routes, as well as the organization of additional ones – in order to provide our defenders with everything necessary in time and the uninterrupted evacuation of the wounded. On the slopes and directly in the city buildings, there is a constant struggle with small assault infantry groups of the enemy, less often – the destruction of light enemy equipment,” he said.
In recent days, Russian troops intensified their efforts to enter Pokrovsk in Donetsk region using light vehicles through the southern outskirts, the press service of the 7th Rapid Response Corps of the Airborne Assault Troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on November 11.
Meanwhile, as reported by the Defense Forces of the South, the Ukrainian military withdrew from their positions near the settlements of Novouspenivske, Nove, Okhotnyche, Uspenivka, Novomykolaivka in the Zaporizhzhia region.