“Fierce fighting continues at the front, with a third of the skirmishes taking place in the Pokrovsky direction in the Donetsk region. On the day of November 4, 154 combat clashes were recorded, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Yesterday, the enemy launched one missile and 51 air strikes, used six missiles, dropped 86 guided air bombs. In addition, it carried out 4,618 attacks, including 133 from multiple-launch rocket systems, and engaged 5,978 kamikaze drones to destroy them… Over the past day, the aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit five areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, nine artillery facilities and one other important enemy object,” the morning statement said. summary
A third of the battles took place in the Pokrovsky direction in the Donetsk region.
“In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 52 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Shakhove, Nove Shakhove, Chervyn Liman, Myrnograd, Novoeconomichne, Rodynske, Lysivka, Novopavlivka, Pokrovsk, Zvirovka, Udachne, Molodetske, Novomykolaivka, Novoukrainka, Dachne,” the message states.
Fighting also continued in the South-Slobozhansk, Kupyansk, Lymansk, Slovyansk, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivsk, Oleksandrivsk, Gulyaipilsk, Orihiv and Prydniprovsk directions.
According to the Institute of War Research, Russian troops continue to advance in the Pokrovsky direction and operate “with increasing comfort” inside the city itself. At the same time, Ukrainian troops continue defensive efforts and counterattacks in the Pokrovsky direction, and also liberated a significant part of the territory, where the Russian troops penetrated, in the Dobropilsky direction.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi said on November 3 that the Ukrainian military is increasing the pressure on the Dobropil ledge. According to him, this forces the Russian army to scatter its forces and makes it impossible to concentrate the main efforts in the Pokrovsk region.
The Pokrovsky direction accounts for about a third of all combat operations on the front, as well as 50% of all uses of guided aerial bombs by Russian troops, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Pokrovsk – a city with a population of about 1,250 people (estimated by the local authorities at the end of October, before the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation – more than 60,000) – is an important road and railway junction and was under threat of encirclement by Russian troops for most of the year.