The enemy is actively advancing in several areas: the hottest spot is in Pokrovsk
20 August 2024 10:25
Over the last day, 158 combat engagements were registered. More than a third of them took place in the Pokrovsk sector. This is reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to the morning report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Yesterday, the enemy launched one missile attack on the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements using one missile, as well as 78 air strikes, including 103 drones. In addition, it carried out 4,624 attacks, including 141 from multiple launch rocket systems, and used 1,448 kamikaze drones.
The enemy carried out air strikes, in particular in the areas of Porozok, Khotin, Obukhivka, Liptsy, Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi, Kopanky, Serhiivka, Kurdyumivka, Toretsk, Shcherbynivka, Nelipivka, Dachne, Oleksandropil, Makarivka, Shakhtarske, Temyrivka, Gulyaypole, Pyatikhatky, Novodanilivka and Olgivka.
Situation at the frontline
In the Kharkiv sector , the enemy continued offensive and assault operations, with a total of five combat engagements initiated by them. The fighting took place in the vicinity of Liptsy and Vovchansk.
The number of combat engagements inthe Kupyansk sector reached fourteen over the last day. Ukrainian defence forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Hlushkivka, Stelmakhivka, Kruhlyakivka, Sinkivka, Andriivka and towards Lozova.
In the Liman sector, our troops stopped 11 enemy attacks in the areas of Hrekivka, Novosadove, Makiivka, Nevske, Novosergiivka, Novoyehorivka and Torske.
In the Siversky sector, UkrainianArmed Forces repelled 10 attacks near Ivan-Daryivka, Spirne and Verkhnekamianske.
In the Kramatorsk sector, Ukrainian troops negated seven enemy attempts to break through our defences in the areas of Ivanivske and Andriivka in Donetsk region.
Twenty-four times the enemy tried to advance in the Toretsk sector. He acted in the areas of Severne, New York, Nelipovka, Zalizne and, most actively, near Toretsk. It also carried out five attacks with nine guided aerial bombs.
In the Pokrovsk sector, our defenders repelled 63 attacks. Most of them took place in the areas of Novohrodivka, Mykhailivka and Vozdvyzhenka.
In the Kurakhove sector, the Ukrainian Defence Forces continue to hold back the enemy in the vicinity of Nevelske and Kostiantynivka, where the occupants tried to break through Ukrainian defensive lines 11 times.
In the Vremivsk sector, the enemy made five attempts to seize our positions near Vodiane and Vuhledar in Donetsk region. He also attacked from the direction of Volodymyrivka and Solodke.
Occupants did not conduct any offensive actionsin the Orikhivske and Huliaypillia directions yesterday.
In the Kherson region, in the Prydniprovsky sector, one attackon Ukrainian positions was repelled.
The situationin the Volyn and Polissya sectors remained unchanged. There are no signs of enemy offensive groups forming.
On the border with Chernihiv region, the enemy maintains a military presence and conducts reconnaissance activities.
Our soldiers continue to actively deplete the enemy’s combat potential, including during the operation in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation.
Enemy losses
Yesterday, the aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Defence Forces conducted 9 strikes on the areas of concentration of enemy personnel and weapons, one on a command post, one on an air defence facility, two on artillery systems and four on other important targets of the Russian occupiers.
In total, the Russian invaders suffered 1,330 casualties over the past day. Ukrainian soldiers also neutralised five tanks, 26 armoured combat vehicles, 52 artillery systems, one MLRS, an air defence system, 55 operational and tactical UAVs, a missile, 95 vehicles and 22 pieces of special equipment of the occupiers.
The total combat losses of the enemy since the beginning of the great war are approximately
- personnel – about 601,800 (1330) people;
- tanks – 8518 (5) units;
- armoured combat vehicles – 16,521 (26) units;
- artillery systems – 17,521 (52) units;
- MLRS – 1166 (1) units;
- air defence systems – 926 (1) units;
- aircraft – 367 units;
- helicopters – 328 units;
- UAVs of operational and tactical level – 13,684 (55) units;
- cruise missiles – 2438 (1) units;
- ships/boats – 28 units;
- submarines – 1 unit;
- motor vehicles and tankers – 23,142 (95) units;
- special equipment – 2885 (22) units.
