General Staff: 156 combat clashes on front lines in past day, Pokrovsk sector remains hottest

As reported by Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shared the update on Facebook, detailing the situation as of 08:00 on Monday, September 8.

Russian forces launched three missile strikes and 75 airstrikes on Ukrainian positions and settlements, using 16 missiles and 143 guided bombs. In addition, they carried out 4,703 shelling attacks, including 184 from multiple-launch rocket systems, and deployed 4,679 kamikaze drones.

Airstrikes targeted areas near Novopavlivka, Shcherbaky, Mahdalynivka, and Lukianivske in the Zaporizhzhia region, as well as Antonivka in the Kherson region.

Ukrainian aviation, missile units, and artillery struck one Russian artillery system and three personnel concentration areas.

In the Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors, Ukrainian forces repelled nine enemy attacks. Russian troops launched 15 airstrikes, dropping 38 guided bombs, and conducted 216 artillery attacks, including six with MLRS.

In the Kupiansk sector, five Russian assaults were recorded, with Ukrainian defenders repelling attacks near Kupiansk and toward Pishchane.

In the Lyman sector, Russian forces launched 17 attacks, attempting to advance near Karpivka, Hrekivka, Serednie, and toward Drobysheve, Shandryholove, and Derylove.

In the Siversk sector, 12 combat clashes occurred near Serebrianka, Hryhorivka, and in the direction of Yampil and Siversk.

In the Kramatorsk sector, Ukrainian forces repelled four enemy attacks near Markove, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, and toward Stupochky and Minkivka.

In the Toretsk sector, Russian troops carried out eight assaults near Poltavka, Shcherbynivka, and toward Pleshchiivka.

The Pokrovsk sector saw the fiercest fighting, with Ukrainian defenders repelling 43 Russian attacks near Shakhove, Vilne, Kotlyne, Novopidhorodne, Novoekonomichne, Rodynske, Myroliubivka, Pokrovsk, Zvirove, Promin, Lysivka, Udachne, Dachne, Novoukrainka, and toward Novopavlivka.

In the Novopavlivka sector, Ukrainian forces repelled 22 enemy assaults near Komyshuvakha, Zelenyi Hai, Obratne, Olhivske, Oleksandrohrad, and in the direction of Ivanivka, Sosnivka, and Filiia.

No offensive actions were reported in the Huliaipole sector.

In the Orikhiv sector, Russian forces launched four attacks near Plavni and toward Mala Tokmachka, Stepnohirsk, and Novodanylivka.

In the Prydniprovske sector, no offensive actions were recorded over the past day.

No signs of Russian offensive group formations were observed in the Volyn and Polissia sectors.

As previously reported by Ukrinform, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have taken full control of the village of Zarichne in the Donetsk region.

Photo credit: AFU General Staff