“The General Staff of the Armed Forces reported 167 combat clashes that occurred over the past day at the front, the most fighting was in the Pokrovsky direction”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the headquarters, the enemy struck on the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements of two missile strokes, using five missiles, 61 aviation strikes, having dropped 127 controlled bombs, also made 5407 shelling, of which 123 were made of reactive volley fire systems.
The most Russian attacks were in the Pokrovsky direction – there were 53 combatants in the areas of settlements of Volodymyrivka, Nikanorivka, Fedorivka, Kucheriv Yar, New Economic, Mirovolyubivka, Promin, Lisiv, Zarovka, Kotlyne, Lucky, Harukhove, Narkhovka, Novoukra, and Dothnay Novopavlivka.
In the Novopavlovsky direction, the forces of defense stopped 28 Russian attempts to break through defensive boundaries.
The enemy continues its attacks in the North Slobozhansky, South Slobozhansky, Kursk, Kupyansk, Siversky, Kramatorsk, Toretsky, Orikhiv and Dnieper directions. In the Gulyaypil direction, he did not carry out assault actions.
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At the same time, the analytical project Deepstate writes that the enemy has advanced near Tornsky, Branch, Zaporizhia, Maliyivka and the Free Field.
The day before, the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrsky stated that Russian troops increase pressure in the north of Donetsk region – in the Lyman direction, but, according to him, the most hot areas remain Pokrovsky, Dobropilsky and Novopavlovsky.
Last week, the promotion of Russian troops for almost a dozen kilometers in the direction of Dobropillya on August 11 marked on his map the analytical project of Deepstate. The spokesman of the operative-strategic group of the Dnipro troops, Lieutenant Colonel Victor Tregubov the next day stated that in Dobropil and Pokrovsky directions Russian troops use the tactics of “impregnation”, which creates a false impression of advancement. But, he said, “impregnation” does not mean that the enemy has taken this territory under control.
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Subsequently, the Armed Forces reported the stabilization of the situation in the Dobropilsk direction.
On August 15, the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrsky, as a result of the meeting of the Supreme Commander -in -Chief, stated that the Ukrainian forces in the Pokrovsky and Dobropilsky directions “increase the pressure on the occupiers, counteract the attempts of the enemy to move forward.”