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Ukrainian General Staff: Russians are focusing their efforts on the Pokrovsky and Kursk directions
2025-02-09
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] Since the beginning of the day, 123 combat clashes have occurred at the front.

The 1081st day of the Russian Federation's large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine has begun. In total, 123 combat clashes were recorded over the past 24 hours.

This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Yesterday, the enemy carried out 106 air strikes on the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements, dropping 169 KABs, and using 2,170 kamikaze drones. In addition, it carried out over five thousand three hundred shellings, 127 of them with MLRS.

The aggressor carried out airstrikes, in particular in the areas of the settlements of Pysarivka, Ploske, Basivka, Petropavlivka, Zeleny Hai, Pishchane, Siversk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka, Kostyantynivka, Oleksiyevo-Druzhkivka, Oleksandropil, Katerynivka, Rozlyv, Novosilka, Novodarivka, and Hulyaipole.

Over the past day, the Defense Forces' aviation, missile troops, and artillery have struck 20 areas of concentration of personnel and equipment, an air defense system, and an enemy artillery system.

In the Kharkiv direction, our troops repelled an enemy attack in the Vovchansk area.

Ten attacks by the invaders took place in the Kupyansk direction over the past day. Defense forces repelled assault actions near the settlements of Zagryzove and Lozova.

In the Lymansk direction, the enemy attacked 13 times. He tried to advance near Kopanky, Novoyehorivka, Novolubivka, and Yampolivka.

In the Siversky direction, the enemy attacked the positions of our defenders 13 times in the areas of the settlements of Bilogorivka and Verkhnokamyanske.

In the Kramatorsk direction, three clashes were recorded in the areas of the settlements of Chasiv Yar and Predtechyne.

In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out ten attacks in the Toretsk area.

In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 30 assault and offensive actions of the aggressor in the areas of Zelene Pole, Tarasivka, Myrolyubivka, Promin, Novooleksandrivka, Nadiivka, Andriivka, and Dachne.

In the Novopavlovsk direction, the invaders attacked the positions of our troops nine times, trying to break through in the direction of Constantinople.

In the operational zone in Kursk, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine have repelled 28 attacks by Russian invaders over the past 24 hours. In addition, the enemy carried out 61 air strikes using 89 guided bombs, as well as 404 artillery attacks on the positions of our troops and settlements, 20 of which were from MLRS.

The enemy did not conduct any assault operations in the Hulyaipil, Orikhiv, and Prydniprov directions over the past day.

No signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn and Polissya directions .

On the border with Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the enemy from the territory of the Russian Federation is actively using artillery, aviation, and strike drones in the areas of Ukrainian settlements.

Our soldiers inflict significant losses on the occupation forces in manpower and equipment, and actively undermine the enemy's offensive potential in the rear.

In total, the losses of the Russian invaders last day amounted to 1,210 people. Ukrainian soldiers also neutralized six tanks, 22 armored combat vehicles, 35 artillery systems, two MLRS, 102 operational-tactical UAVs, and 95 units of automotive equipment of the invaders.

Posted by:badanov

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