“Over the past 24 hours, 180 combat clashes have been recorded at the front, most of them in the Pokrovsky, Kostyantynivskyi and Gulyaipilskyi directions, reports the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Russian troops launched hundreds of air, missile and artillery strikes”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Yesterday, the enemy launched two missile and 97 air strikes against the positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas, used three missiles and dropped 234 guided aerial bombs. In addition, 6,968 kamikaze drones were used to destroy and 3,338 attacks were carried out on the positions of our troops and populated areas, of which 57 were from rocket salvo fire systems… The aviation and missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit seven areas of concentration of enemy personnel and equipment, two UAV control points and another important object of the Russian invaders,” it is stated in messages
More than half of the battles took place in three directions – Pokrovsky and Kostyantynivskyi in Donetsk region and Gulyaipilskyi in Zaporizhzhia.
“In the direction of Kostyantynivka, the enemy carried out 21 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Kostyantynivka, Ivanopillia, Rusyn Yar, Oleksandro-Shultine, Shcherbynivka, Pleshchiivka and in the direction of Novopavlivka, Stepanivka, Sofiivka.
In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 46 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of Nikanorivka, Mirnograd, Pokrovsk, Kotlyna, Udachne, Novosergiivka, Molodetske, Filia and in the direction of Vilno, Rodinsky, Novy Shahovoy, Sukhetsky.
In the direction of Gulyaipil, the Defense Forces repelled 30 attacks by Russians, in the areas of Solodky, Gulyaipol and in the direction of Dobropill, Olenokostiantynivka, Zeleny, and Varvarivka,” the morning summary says.
Battles also continued in the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk, South-Slobozhansk, Kupyansk, Lymansk, Slovyansk, Kramatorsk, Oleksandrivsk, Orihiv and Dnieper directions.
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The Russian army broke through to the north of the Pokrovsk city boundary and was able to gain a foothold there, the DeepState project reported on January 11. A “wedge” appeared on the map of hostilities in the direction of Rodinsky, which already extends beyond the city limits.
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 last year.