There were 41 more combat clashes in the Pokrovsk direction.
As of 22:00 on December 20, 191 combat clashes had occurred, the enemy launched three missile and 32 air strikes using nine missiles and 59 KABs, more than 730 kamikaze drone strikes and carried out more than 4 thousand shellings of our troops' positions and populated areas using various types of weapons.
This was reported by the press service of the General Staff Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the Kharkiv direction, one combat clash with Russian invaders occurred in the area of Volchansk.
In KupyanskIn this direction, the enemy attempted to displace our units from their positions near Kucherovka, Sinkovka, Petrovpavlovka, Zagryzovoye and Lozovaya 11 times. One combat contact continues.
The enemy attacked in the Limansky direction 14 times, trying to advance in the directions of Yampolevka, Terny, Novosergeevka, Zelenaya Roshcha, Ivanovka, Torskoye, Grigoryevka and in the Serebryansky forest.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the Defense Forces repelled six enemy attempts to advance near the settlement of Chasov Yar.
The enemy tried to penetrate our defense in the Toretsk direction 11 times. Since the beginning of the day, the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Toretsk and Leonidovka have received ten tough rebuffs from our defenders. One attack is still ongoing.
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The enemy is intensively attacking Ukrainian defenders in Pokrovskdirection. Here, during the day, the aggressor carried out 41 assault and offensive actions. The greatest activity of the Russian occupiers remains in the areas of the settlements of Mirolyubovka, Luch, Lysovka, Zelenoe, Novy Trud, Dachenskoye, Volkovoe, Peschanoye, Novovasilovka, Novoelizavetovka, Novoalekseevka and Ukrainka. The Ukrainian defenders have already repelled thirty-five attacks in this direction, and six more combat contacts are ongoing.
At the same time, the enemy launched air strikes on the settlements of Alexandropol, Sukhoi Yar and Pokrovsk, dropping a total of three guided bombs.
Our soldiers are making efforts to prevent the enemy from advancing deep into Ukrainian territory. According to currently available information, the aggressor's losses in this direction today amounted to 370 people, of which 171 were irretrievable. One infantry fighting vehicle and nine vehicles were destroyed. In addition, a mortar and a unit of automotive equipment were damaged.
On KurakhovskyDirection, currently 20 combat clashes. so far. settlements of Konstantinopol and Andreyevka received blows with guided bombs. At the same time, in this direction the Defense Forces neutralized 86 occupiers, of which 34 were irretrievably. In the Vremivsky direction there were 25 combat contacts. Twenty-two enemy assaults have already been stopped by our defenders in the areas of Uspenovka, Dalny, Yantarny, Razliv, Bogatyr, Velikaya Novosyolka, Makarovka, Novosyolka, Novopolya and Novodarovka. Stubborn fighting continues to this day. The enemy also used aviation in the area of Velikaya Novosyolka, dropping four guided aerial bombs.
On OrikhovskomIn this direction, our soldiers successfully repelled the enemy's attempt to advance in the Malaya Tokmachka area.
Our defenders repelled attacks by Russian invaders in the Dnieper direction four times. striking with 8 unguided missiles.
Fifty combat clashes occurred today in the Kursk direction, in addition, the enemy launched one missile strike and carried out 377 artillery shellings.
In the Seversky > and Gulyai-Pole directions, the enemy has not carried out any active operations since the beginning of the day.
Today, we should note the soldiers of the 425th separate assault battalion, the 68th separate ranger brigade named after Oleksa Dovbush, the 38th separate marine brigade, the 25th separate airborne Secheslav brigade, the 414th separate brigade of strike unmanned aerial systems. Transcarpathian brigade and the 124th separate territorial defense brigade, who, in extremely difficult conditions, are holding back attacks by superior enemy forces, inflicting significant losses on him.