Pokrovsk

And this is also what we saw in the command post with all the screens, all the live combat footage that we see.

You see areas in Dobropilya, in the Pokrovsk direction.

In all these directions, you can see live footage of the FPV strikes.

Dozens of strikes every hour that the teams in the command post can track directly can see, OK, where was this dugout hit? Where was this Russian infantryman spotted? And they can very quickly give this information and spread it with using the Delta system, which is the platform they use.

On the front line, the general staff reported 173 combat clashes by 10 p.m.

The Pokrovsk direction remained the most active with 27 clashes, while the Kostiantynivka direction saw 15.

Russia also carried out 54 airstrikes, dropped 176 guided bombs, and used almost 4,930 kamikaze drones during the day.

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By 10 p.m., the general staff reported 189 combat clashes.

The most active areas included the Kostiantynivka direction with 20 Russian attacks and the Pokrovsk direction with 14.

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A petition asking President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to hold an open press conference with independent media reached the required 25,000 signatures.

And sieges are not something that people are very used to in the West, especially.

So the capture of a town like Konstantinovka or Pokrovsk or whatever, which takes time, is not something that immediately people look at the map and say, well, just move from here to there.

What does this even mean? I was brought up to think about this in a very different way.

I've mentioned this in another program.

Last week, ten thousand six hundred and sixty Russian troops were killed or wounded in action, he said, with every Russian loss confirmed by video evidence.

President Zelenskyy said the most intense fighting is taking place around Pokrovsk, Kostiantynivka, and Lyman, and singled out Third Army Corps and the Sixty-eighth separate Oleshka Dovbush Air Mobile Brigade for particular praise, no doubt for their efforts on Op Vivaldi.

Speaking of which, this morning, General Andrii Biletskyi, the commander of Ukraine's Third Army Corps, has been giving an update on what he called the third season of Operation Vivaldi.

He said three more villages in Northern Donetsk Oblast, totaling just over fifty square kilometers, have been liberated, and over two thousand Russian soldiers killed or wounded and at least two hundred and fifty taken prisoner in this latest phase, taking to one hundred and seventy-six square kilometers the amount of land retaken so far in the operation.

And the high number would be about 4,400.

Donetsk region, Konstantinivka direction, 18 enemy assaults, Pokrovsk direction, 12.

Those are the high watermarks.

Everything else was in single digits day over day.

It's a very rough cut, but it's still helpful to understand to gauge what's going on.

27 attacks in the Pokrovsk direction yesterday.

Kostiantynivka, 17 assaults.

236 combat engagements day over day.