{"id":1360733,"date":"2026-02-21T09:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/over-the-past-24-hours-175-combat-contacts-have-been-recorded-on-the-front-and-39-attacks-have-been-stopped-in-the-pokrovsky-direction\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:53:09","slug":"over-the-past-24-hours-175-combat-contacts-have-been-recorded-on-the-front-and-39-attacks-have-been-stopped-in-the-pokrovsky-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/over-the-past-24-hours-175-combat-contacts-have-been-recorded-on-the-front-and-39-attacks-have-been-stopped-in-the-pokrovsky-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Over the past 24 hours, 175 combat contacts have been recorded on the front, and 39 attacks have been stopped in the Pokrovsky direction."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex flex-col text-sm pb-25\">\n<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [&#038;:has([data-writing-block])>*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-[calc(var(&#8211;header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]&#8221; dir=&#8221;auto&#8221; tabindex=&#8221;-1&#8243; data-turn-id=&#8221;request-698713f3-5410-832a-a41b-f7d389cfd3e7-10&#8243; data-testid=&#8221;conversation-turn-140&#8243; data-scroll-anchor=&#8221;true&#8221; data-turn=&#8221;assistant&#8221;><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" tabindex=\"-1\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&#038;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"c101369b-801a-45bb-a9f9-c50bf87de58c\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-2\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word dark markdown-new-styling\"><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"83\" data-end=\"384\"> <strong>On February 20, 175 combat clashes were recorded on the Russian-Ukrainian front. The situation remains tense in the Pokrovsk sector, where Ukrainian forces stopped 39 enemy assaults and offensives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"83\" data-end=\"384\"> <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine<\/span><\/span> reported this in construction as of 08:00.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"386\" data-end=\"420\"> Massive strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"422\" data-end=\"466\"> According to updated data, the day before the enemy: <\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"467\" data-end=\"699\"><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"467\" data-end=\"510\">\n<p data-start=\"469\" data-end=\"510\"> launched two missile strikes (two missiles);<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"511\" data-end=\"569\">\n<p data-start=\"513\" data-end=\"569\"> carried out 89 airstrikes, dropping 229 guided bombs;<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"570\" data-end=\"605\">\n<p data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"605\"> used 7,846 kamikaze drones;<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"699\">\n<p data-start=\"608\" data-end=\"699\"> Conducted 2,967 shelling attacks on Ukrainian troop positions and populated areas, including 69 using MLRS.<\/p>\n<p><\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"701\" data-end=\"879\"> At the same time, missile forces and artillery of the defense forces hit seven areas of enemy personnel concentration, an artillery system, three command posts and a supply of ammunition.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"881\" data-end=\"906\"> Situation in the directions<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"908\" data-end=\"1081\"> Three armed clashes occurred in the Severo-Slobozhansky and Kursk directions. The enemy launched five airstrikes, dropped six heavy bombs, and carried out 72 attacks, two of which were from multiple rocket launchers.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1083\" data-end=\"1203\"> In the South Slobozhansky direction, four assaults were recorded in the areas of Staritsa, Liman, Volchanskie Khutors and Krugly.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1205\" data-end=\"1328\"> In the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian troops repelled eight attacks near Peschane and in the directions of Novoosinove and Kurilovka.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1330\" data-end=\"1465\"> In the Liman direction, the enemy attempted to advance forward ten times in the areas of Zarechny and in the direction of Drobyshev, Liman and Stavki.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1467\" data-end=\"1597\"> In the Slavyansk direction, ten attacks were repelled in the areas of Yampol, Zakotnoye, Platonovka and in the directions of Rai-Aleksandrovka and Ozernoye.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1599\" data-end=\"1658\"> No offensive actions were recorded in the Kramatorsk direction.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1660\" data-end=\"1846\"> In the Konstantinovka direction, the enemy carried out 26 attacks in the areas of Pleshcheyevka, Rusiny Yar, Sofiyivka and the directions of Konstantinovka, Ivanopol, Berestok, Novopavlovka, Ilyinovka and Stepanovka.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1848\" data-end=\"2097\"> The greatest activity was recorded in the Pokrovsk direction &#8211; 39 attacks in the areas of Rodinskoye, Mirnograd, Pokrovsk, Kotlinoy, Udachny, Molodetskoye, Muravka, Novonikolaevka and in the directions of Novoaleksandrivka, Kucherov Yar, Sergeyevka and Novopavlovka.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2099\" data-end=\"2169\"> In the Aleksandrovsk direction, the enemy attacked three times in the Stepnoye area.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2171\" data-end=\"2338\"> In the Gulyai-Polye direction, 18 attempts to advance were recorded in the areas of Gulyai-Polye, Zagornoye and in the directions of Varvarovka, Lenokonstantinovka, Zheleznodorozhny and Svyatopetrivka.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2340\" data-end=\"2440\"> In the Orekhov direction, the enemy attacked three times near Stepnoye, Malye Shcherbaki and Stepnogorsk.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2442\" data-end=\"2513\"> In the Dnieper direction, the enemy made three unsuccessful attempts to attack.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2515\" data-end=\"2627\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> At the same time, no signs of the formation of offensive enemy groups were detected in the Volyn and Polesie directions. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"z-0 flex min-h-[46px] justify-start\"><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1417\" data-end=\"1659\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> It was previously reported <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/viyskovi-zaperechyly-informatsiiu-pro-otochennia-na-donechchyni\/\">that information about the alleged encirclement of Ukrainian Defense Forces units in Rodinskoye, Donetsk Oblast, was untrue.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1417\" data-end=\"1659\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/armiia-rf-prosunulys-u-trokh-naselenykh-punktakh-na-donechchyni\/\">on February 20, the Russian occupation army made territorial advances in three populated areas <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">of the Donetsk region<\/span><\/span> .<\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-3 w-full empty:hidden\"><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1340202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1360733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}