DeepState: Russian Armed Forces advanced in three directions on the eve of the announcement of an "Easter Truce"

DeepState: Russian Armed Forces advanced in three directions on the eve of the announcement of an "Easter Truce"

On Saturday, April 19, Russian occupation forces advanced in three sectors of the front at once. In particular, the invaders improved their positions in the Lyman, Pokrovsk, and Novopavlivka directions.

Thus, the enemy did not cease attacks despite the "30-hour Easter truce" declared by the Russian dictator. This follows from the report of the Ukrainian information resource DeepState, which updated the interactive war map.

According to analysts, in the Lyman direction, in the area of the administrative border between Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the Russian army was successful near the village of Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region.

Earlier, DeepState reported that this area is in an active phase of fighting with dynamic transitioning of positions "from hand to hand." It was also emphasized that the information about the complete control of Bilohorivka by the enemy needs clarification. Currently, the village is largely in the "gray zone."

At the same time, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 14 enemy attacks took place in the Lyman direction over the past day. Bilohorivka was not mentioned, but attempts by the occupiers to advance near Novomykhaylivka, Novo, Yampolivka, and in the directions of Torske, Hrekivka, Hlushchenkove, and Olhivka, Zelena Dolyna were reported.

According to DeepState, on the eve Russian forces made advances in Uspenivka in the Pokrovsk direction and near the Rozliv area in the Novopavlivka direction, which is near the administrative border of the Donetsk region with the Dnipropetrovsk region.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that during the day in the Pokrovsk direction, Russian troops carried out 39 attacks in the areas of Sukhna Balka, Tarasivka, Vodyane Druhe, Yelyzavetivka, Promin, Lysivka, Novoleksandrivka, Preobrazhenka, Sribne, Bohdanivka, Troitske, Novotoretske, Svyrydonivka, Malynivka, Shevchenko, Zvyrove, Uspenivka, Kotlyarivka, Andriivka, and in the direction of Stara Mykolaivka.

Preliminarily, in this section of the front, the Defence Forces neutralized 165 occupiers (91 irretrievably) and destroyed three satellite communication terminals (one more was damaged), 10 units of automotive equipment (one was damaged), three motorcycles, two generators, and one enemy UAV control point.

In the Novopavlivka direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled 12 Russian attacks in the areas of Pryvilne, Novosilka, and Kostyantynopil.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, reported on hundreds of Russian shellings since the start of Putin’s "Easter truce". In particular, after 18:00 on Saturday and at the beginning of the day on April 20, the occupiers carried out 387 shellings and 19 assault actions, using drones 290 times.