“Over the past 24 hours, 201 combat clashes have been recorded at the front, reports the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The fiercest battles took place in the Pokrovsky direction in the Donetsk region, where the Ukrainian military repelled 52 assaults”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Yesterday, the enemy launched one missile and 52 air strikes, used one missile and dropped 153 guided aerial bombs. In addition, it carried out 3,787 attacks, including 50 from rocket salvo systems, and engaged 4,406 kamikaze drones for destruction… Over the past day, aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit three areas where the enemy’s personnel, weapons and military equipment are concentrated,” the morning summary says.
More than a quarter of the battles took place in the Pokrovsky direction in the Donetsk region.
“In the direction of Pokrovsk, our defenders stopped 52 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of Volodymyrivka, Mayak, Rodynske, Chervyn Liman, Novoeconomichne, Pokrovsk, Kotlyna, Udachne, Molodetske, Dachne and in the direction of Novopavlivka,” the message states.
Active hostilities also took place in other directions in Donetsk region.
“On the Lymansky direction, the enemy attacked 31 times, trying to penetrate our defenses in the areas of Novovodyane, Novoyehorivka, Grekivka, Novomykhailivka, Serednoe, Karpivka, Shandrigolovo, Kolodyazi, Myrno, Zarichne and towards Stepovoye.
In the Kostyantynivsk direction, the enemy carried out 27 attacks in the areas of Oleksandro-Shultine, Pleshchiivka, Shcherbynivka, Yablunivka and Rusyn Yar settlements.
Yesterday, the enemy carried out 18 attacks in the Oleksandrivsk direction in the areas of the settlements of Yalta, Tovste, Zeleny Gai, Oleksandrograd, Sosnivka, Verbove, Krasnohirske and Privilne,” the General Staff informs.
Battles also continued in the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk, South-Slobozhansk, Kupyansk, Slavyansk, Gulyaipil and Dnieper directions.
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On December 1, the Kremlin announced that on the evening of November 30, Russian leader Vladimir Putin visited one of the control points of the joint group of Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, where the Russian command allegedly informed him about the capture of the cities of Pokrovska and Vovchansk.
The authorities of Ukraine deny these reports. On the evening of December 1, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi, speaking in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron, emphasized that all these cities remain under the control of Ukraine. However, he admitted that the situation in Pokrovsk and other areas “remains difficult.”
Pokrovsk – a city with a population of about 1,250 people (estimated by 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.