“According to the report, in the Pokrovsky direction, Ukrainian forces stopped the offensive actions of the Russian army in the areas of the settlements of Shakhove, Rodynske, Mirnograd, Pokrovsk, Kotlyna, Udachne, Molodetske and in the direction of Novopavlivka”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the report, in the Pokrovsky direction, Ukrainian forces stopped the offensive actions of the Russian army in the areas of the settlements of Shakhove, Rodynske, Mirnograd, Pokrovsk, Kotlyna, Udachne, Molodetske and in the direction of Novopavlivka.
“On the Oleksandrivskyi direction, the Defense Forces repelled 26 attacks on the positions of our troops near the settlements of Zeleny Gay, Sosnivka, Sichneve, Verbove, Privillia, Vyshneve, Krasnohirske, Rybne and Privilne. In the Kostiantynivka direction, enemy units carried out 18 attacks in the areas of Shcherbynivka, Pleshchiivka, Oleksandro-Shultyne, Ivanopillia, Kostiantynivka, Yablunivka, Rusyn Yar and in the direction of Sofiivka,” the report says.
In addition, according to the General Staff, combat operations continued in the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk, South-Slobozhansk, Kupyansk, Lymansk, Slovyansk, Gulyaipil, Orihiv, Dnieper directions.
On December 9, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi said that the defense of Pokrovsk continues, Ukrainian troops control almost 13 square meters in the north of the city. kilometers, and Myrnograd is not surrounded.
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.
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