[Korrespondent] The General Staff reported significant enemy activity at the front.
In particular, in the Pokrovsk direction, since the beginning of the day, the Russians have tried to advance on the positions of Ukrainian units 67 times.
Compared to the previous day, the enemy has significantly stepped up its efforts, the total number of assault actions has increased two and a half times, with the greatest activity in the Pokrovsky direction. In total, 250 combat clashes have occurred since the beginning of this day. This is stated in the General Staff report on Saturday, February 15.
The invaders carried out 33 air strikes on Ukrainian territory, used 47 guided aerial bombs. In addition, they used more than 500 kamikaze drones for destruction and carried out about four thousand shellings on the positions of our troops and populated areas.
In the Kharkov direction, the enemy stormed the positions of our units five times in the areas of Volchansk, Tikhoye and in the direction of Kazachya Lopan. The battle continues in the Volchansk area, the situation is under control.
In the Kupyansk direction, the aggressor carried out offensive actions in the areas of the settlements of Dvurechnaya, Petrovpavlovka, Stepnaya Novoselovka, Kolesnikovka, Lozovaya and in the direction of Novoosinove, where Ukrainian defenders stopped 26 enemy attacks, and another 11 clashes continue.
In the Liman direction, Russian invaders attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 26 times near the settlements of Zeleny Gai, Novoyegorovka, Grekovka, Kolodets, Yampolevka, Terny, Torskoye and Dibrova. Six clashes are still ongoing.
Five enemy assaults were repelled by Ukrainian defenders in the Seversky direction, another five clashes are still ongoing, the occupiers are trying to advance in the areas of Verkhnekamenskoye and Ivano-Daryevka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy stormed the positions of our defenders near Predtechino, Stupochki, Belaya Gora and in the area of ​​Chasovy Yar. The defense forces repelled 24 attacks by the invaders, five combat contacts are ongoing.
Seventeen times the Russians stormed the positions of Ukrainian units in the Toretsk direction in the areas of Toretsk, Dilievka and Krymskoye, and two combat clashes are currently ongoing.
In the Pokrovsk direction, since the beginning of this day, the occupiers have tried to advance on the positions of Ukrainian units 67 times, the enemy attacked in the areas of the settlements of Zelenoye Pole, Tarasovka, Vodyanoye Vtoroy, Mirolyubovka, Elizavetovka, Luch, Lisovka, Dachenskoye, Shevchenko, Peschanoye, Kotlino. Our defenders stopped 47 assault actions of the enemy. Fighting continues in twenty locations.
Today, according to preliminary data, 536 occupiers were neutralized in this direction, 261 of them irretrievably. Ukrainian soldiers also destroyed 23 armored combat vehicles, four units of automotive equipment, one electronic warfare system and two motorcycles. In addition, three tanks, ten armored combat vehicles, four cars and an artillery system of the Russians were damaged.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy tried to break through the defense of our defenders 24 times in the areas of Zelenovka, Razliv, Novy Komar, Novosyolka and Velikaya Novosyolka. Fourteen combat clashes have not subsided to this day.
In the Orekhov direction, the enemy twice attacked the positions of our defenders in the direction of Novoandreyevka, but had no success.
In the Dnieper direction, our troops repelled eight unsuccessful attempts by the enemy to attack Ukrainian positions.
In the Kursk direction, the invader has undertaken offensive actions nine times since the beginning of the day; all enemy attacks have been repelled.
"Today, it is worth noting the soldiers of the 59th separate assault brigade of the 1st brigade" and the 406th separate artillery brigade, who are effectively destroying the enemy, inflicting significant losses in manpower and equipment," the General Staff noted.
Let us recall that over the past 24 hours, the aggressor country Russia lost 1,180 servicemen killed and wounded on the battlefield.