“Since the beginning of the day on January 26, 93 combat clashes have been recorded on the front, most of which occurred in the Pokrovsky, Kostyantynivskyi and Gulyaipilsky directions”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“The enemy carried out 67 air strikes, dropped 144 guided air bombs. In addition, it used 3,198 kamikaze drones and carried out 2,935 attacks on populated areas and positions of our troops,” the summary reads as of 10:00 p.m.
More than half of the battles were recorded in two directions in the Donetsk region and in the Gulyaipil direction in Zaporizhzhia.
“In the direction of Kostyantynivka, today the occupiers stormed the positions of our defenders 15 times near the settlements of Kostyantynivka, Ivanopil’a, Shcherbynivka, Pleshchiivka, Kleban-Bik, Rusyn Yar, Sofiivka and in the direction of Stepanivka.
The enemy made 29 attacks in the Pokrovsky direction. The occupiers tried to advance near the settlements of Rodynske, Pokrovsk, Kotlyne, Molodetske, Filia, and towards the settlements of Shevchenko, Bilytske, and Hryshyne. In some locations, fighting is still going on.
In the Gulyaipol direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled 13 attacks by the occupiers in the Gulyaipol area and in the direction of Varvarivka and Dobropill. One battle continues. In addition, enemy aircraft struck the settlements of Zaliznychne, Verkhnya Tersa, Velikomykhailivka, Charivne, Kopani, and Vozdvizhivka,” the message states.
Fighting also continued in Yuzhno-Slobozhansk, Kupyansk, Lymansk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Oleksandrivsk, and Orihiv directions.
On January 22, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, stated that the Defense Forces continue to restrain Russian troops in Pokrovsk and Myrnograd in Donetsk region, as small groups of the Russian Federation are trying to infiltrate the northern regions of both cities.
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Before that, the “East” military group reported that Ukrainian units continue active operations in the area of the Pokrovsk-Myrnograd agglomeration and control the northern parts of both cities.
On January 19, Syrskyi reported that a grueling confrontation is ongoing in the Pokrovsk-Myrnograd agglomeration area: the Russian army is pulling up reserves to Pokrovsk, looking for opportunities to break through Ukrainian defenses both through sporadic mass assaults and through the covert advance of small infantry groups.
Fighting in Pokrovsk has been going on since October 2025, when the Russian army managed to break through to the city after several months of fighting on its slopes. Almost immediately, Russian soldiers began to be recorded in Pokrovsk’s satellite city of Mirnograd. The Pokrovsky direction, according to the reports of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, constantly leads in terms of the number of Russian assaults.