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Ukrainian General Staff: Russian army continues to press in Pokrovskoye direction, heavy fighting continues
2025-02-24
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] Over the past 24 hours, 112 clashes have occurred on the front.

by Ivanna Kapustianska


The 1096th day of large-scale armed aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine has begun. In total, 112 combat clashes were recorded over the past day.

The General Staff informs about this.

Yesterday, the enemy launched two missile strikes using three missiles and 81 airstrikes, dropping 135 missiles, on the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements. In addition, it carried out more than 5,300 attacks, 47 of them from multiple launch rocket systems, and used 2,785 kamikaze drones to strike.

Enemy airstrikes targeted Monachynivka, Zapadne, Zolochiv, and Dubivka in Kharkiv Oblast; Kostyantynivka, Ivanopillya, Sloviansk, Myrolyubivka, Zvirovo, and Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast; Novopavlivka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast; Hulyaipole, Lobkove, Zelene, Varvarivka, and Stepnohirsk in Zaporizhia Oblast; Kherson, Vysoke, Tyahynka, Kozatske, and Shlyakhove in Kherson Oblast.

Over the past day, the Defense Forces' aviation, missile troops, and artillery have struck two command posts, 15 areas of concentration of personnel and equipment, and two artillery pieces of the invaders.

In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy attacked five times, towards Vovchansk, Figolivka, Dvorichnaya, and Zapadne.

In the Kupyansk direction, three attacks by the invaders took place in a day. The defense forces repelled the enemy's assault actions in the Zagryzove area.

In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked 13 times. He tried to penetrate our defenses near the settlements of Ivanivka, Kolodyazhi, Yampolivka, and in the Serebryansk Forest.

In the Siversky direction, Ukrainian units repelled the offensive actions of the invaders three times in the area of ​​Bilogorivka.

In the Kramatorsk direction, the invaders carried out six attacks in the areas of Vasyukivka, Stupochok, and Bila Hora.

In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out 13 attacks near Toretsk and in the direction of Diliivka.

In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 34 assault and offensive actions of the aggressor near the settlements of Vodyane Druge, Novotoretske, Yelizavetivka, Promyn, Dachenske, Kotlyne, Udachne, Novooleksandrivka, Andriivka and Ulakly. At the same time, the enemy actively used bombing and assault aircraft on settlements and positions of our troops.

In the Novopavlovsk direction, the aggressor attacked eight times in the past day near the settlements of Konstantinopol and Burlatske.

In the Orikhiv direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled four attacks in the area of ​​Pyatikhatki and Shcherbaky.

In the Dnieper direction, the Russian invaders once tried to dislodge our units from their occupied positions, but they were unsuccessful and suffered losses.

The operation in the Kursk direction is ongoing. Over the past day, Ukrainian defenders have repelled 13 enemy attacks in the direction. The enemy launched 20 air strikes, dropping 28 anti-aircraft missiles, and carried out 383 attacks, including 14 from multiple launch rocket systems.

The occupiers did not conduct offensive operations in the Hulyaipil direction.

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 and strike UAVs in the areas of Ukrainian settlements. Our soldiers are inflicting significant losses on the occupation forces in manpower and equipment, and are actively undermining the enemy's offensive potential in the rear.

In total, the losses of the Russian invaders last day amounted to 1,180 people. Ukrainian soldiers also neutralized seven tanks, 12 armored combat vehicles, 54 artillery systems, one MLRS, an air defense system, 117 operational-tactical-level UAVs, 91 vehicles, and three units of special equipment of the invaders.

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