Ukraine facing fierce fighting around eastern city of Pokrovsk, Zelenskiy says
(Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday, the Ukrainian forces faced a violent struggle in the city of Pokrovsk in the East.
Speaking at night video address Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s best commander Oleksandr Syrskyi’nin senior officials at a meeting, Pokrovsk around Pokrovsk, the situation began in February 2022, the current focus of the war, he said.
Zelenskiy, “All operational instructions, especially Pokrovsk focused. The most remarkable attracts.” He said.
He said that the Ukrainian forces “continue to take action” in the border areas in the North Sumy region, where Russian troops have gained a basis in recent weeks.
In a separate report on the Telegram messaging application, Syrskyi described Pokrovsk and the other five sectors as the most difficult theaters along the 1,000 km (620 miles) front.
Syrskyi, “the Russian Federation is paying a maximum price to try a ‘summer attack’.
The Russian forces have been trying to close to Pokrovsk, a road and railway center with a pre -war population of approximately 60,000 for months.
In May, Syrskyi reported that Kiev’s troops stabilized the situation around the town, and at the same time, the region of the only Koliery in Ukraine produced sniffing coal for the country’s steel industry.
On Thursday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that two villages were arrested on both sides of Zvirove in the West and Zvirove in the West and on both sides of Novoeconomicne in the east. A third village near the city – Novotoretske – Moscow was declared “liberated” at the beginning of the week.
Ukrainian officials did not accept that the villages had changed hands. In a evening report of the general staff of the Ukrainian army, two – Zvirove and Novoeconomicne – Russian troops are in the regions where Ukraine defenses are trying to penetrate their defenses.
In the Sumy region, where Russian troops are trying to establish what Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin calls “buffer zone”, the popular Ukraine military blog Deepstate said that Kiev’s forces had taken back a missing village before.
He said that the Ukrainian troops restored the control over the village of Kindrativka. There was no official comment on both sides.
(Reporting by Ron Popeski and Oleksandr Kozhukhar, editing by Rosalba O’Brien)
