211 combat engagements per day: where the enemy attacks most intensively
Kyiv • UNN
There were 211 combat engagements in the frontline, with the highest activity in the Pokrovsk sector - 55 assault operations. The enemy launched missile and air strikes, using 78 missiles and kamikaze drones.
Since the beginning of the day, 211 combat engagements took place in the frontline. The enemy is intensifying its attacks in the Pokrovsk sector. During the day, the aggressor carried out 55 assault and offensive actions there. This is stated in the operational information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 22:00 on December 25, UNN reports.
Details
It is noted that the enemy launched one missile and 12 air strikes using 78 missiles and 29 drones, 690 kamikaze strikes and fired more than 4,500 times at the positions of our troops and settlements using various types of weapons.
Situation by direction:
In the Kharkiv sector, three combat engagements with Russian invaders took place in the area of Vovchansk.
In the Kupyansk sector, the enemy tried seven times to force our units out of their positions near Dvorichna, Pishchane, Kolisnykivka and Lozova. One firefight is ongoing.
The enemy attacked twenty-six times in the Liman sector, trying to advance in the directions of Novoyehorivka, Kopanky, Zelenyi Hai, Makiivka, Terny, Yampolivka, Serebryansky forest and in the direction of Druzhelyubivka. Nadiia and Zelenyi Hai came under enemy fire.
In the Siverskyi sector, our soldiers repelled two enemy attacks near Bilohorivka.
In the Kramatorsk sector, the Defense Forces repelled 11 enemy attempts to advance near Stupochky, Chasiv Yar and Bila Hora.
The enemy tried to break into our defense 12 times in the Toretsk sector. Since the beginning of the day, the occupants near the settlements of Toretsk, Diliyivka and Shcherbynivka have received a fierce rebuff from our defenders eight times. Four attacks are still ongoing.
The enemy is intensively attacking Ukrainian defenders in the Pokrovske sector. Here, during the day, the aggressor carried out 55 assault and offensive actions. Russian occupants were most active in the areas of Zelene Pole, Vozdvyzhenka, Myroliubivka, Promin, Lysivka, Dachanske, Pokrovsk, Novyi Trud, Zelene and Novotroitske. Forty-seven attacks in the sector have already been repelled by Ukrainian defenders, and eight more combat engagements are ongoing. At the same time, the enemy launched air strikes with anti-aircraft gunships on the settlements of Pokrovsk and Kotlyne
Our soldiers are making efforts to prevent the enemy from advancing deep into Ukrainian territory. According to the currently available information, the aggressor's losses in this sector amounted to 276 people, 149 of whom were irretrievably wounded. 14 vehicles, two ATVs, one ATGM and one mortar were destroyed. In addition, a mortar and a vehicle were damaged.
In the Kurakhove sector, 31 combat engagements have been registered as of this time of day. The invaders remain highly active, trying to advance in the areas of Petropavlivka, Slovianka, Yasenove, Kurakhove, Andriivka and Dachne. Ukrainian Defense Forces units repelled 24 enemy attacks, seven of which are still ongoing.
There were 34 firefights in the Vremivsk sector. 33 enemy assaults have already been stopped by our defenders in the areas of Kostyantynopolske, Yantarne, Kostyantynopol, Rozlyv, Velyka Novosilka, Novosilka, Blahodatne and Vremivka. One attack is still ongoing. The enemy also used aircraft in the areas of Vremivka and Burlatske.
In the Orikhivske sector, our defenders successfully repelled two enemy attempts to advance in the area of Novodanylivka.
Twice without success, the invaders' troops tried to force the units of the Defense Forces out of their positions on the Prydniprovskyi direction.
Twenty-six combat engagements took place in the Kursk sector today, three are still ongoing. The enemy made 420 artillery attacks over the last day.
The enemy did not conduct any active operations in the Gulyaypil sector since the beginning of the day.
Today, we should mention the soldiers of the 108th separate territorial defense brigade and the 406th separate artillery brigade named after General-Corporal Oleksiy Almazov, who, in extremely difficult conditions, are holding back the attacks of the enemy's superior forces and inflicting significant losses on them.