Russian forces are staging their heaviest attacks near the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kiev’s military has said.
The general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said in a battlefield update that fighting on the Pokrovsk front was the fiercest anywhere in eastern Ukraine, adding that Ukrainian forces had repulsed 52 Russian attacks in the past 24 hours.
“The biggest concentration of enemy attacks was around Zhelanne and Novooleksandrivka,” he said, mentioning two villages that lie east of Pokrovsk.
Pokrovsk, with a pre-war population of 61,000, lies on a main road that serves as an important supply route to other places, such as the towns of Chasiv Yar and Kostiantynivka.
“On the border with the Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the enemy has established a military presence, carries out sabotage and intelligence activities, attacks populated areas from the territory of the Russian Federation,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces said in a post on Telegram.
From February 24, 2022 to July 29, 2024, 576,000 Russians have been killed, the general staff said.
