{"id":1395544,"date":"2026-05-20T17:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/there-were-38-battles-on-the-front-the-most-intense-being-in-the-gulyai-polye-direction\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:52:17","slug":"there-were-38-battles-on-the-front-the-most-intense-being-in-the-gulyai-polye-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/there-were-38-battles-on-the-front-the-most-intense-being-in-the-gulyai-polye-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"There were 38 battles on the front, the most intense being in the Gulyai-Polye direction."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"268\"><strong>Since the start of the day, 38 combat clashes have been recorded on the Russian-Ukrainian front. The most active fighting continues in the Hulyai-Polye area, where Ukrainian forces have already repelled 15 attacks by the occupying forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The General Staff <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/GeneralStaffZSU\/38893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> this.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"327\" data-end=\"621\"> Three military clashes occurred in the Severo-Slobozhansky and Kursk directions. Russian forces carried out one airstrike, dropped two guided bombs, and launched 38 attacks on Ukrainian military positions and settlements, including using multiple launch rocket systems.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"623\" data-end=\"724\"> In the South Slobozhansky direction, the occupiers once stormed the positions of the Defense Forces near Staritsa.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"726\" data-end=\"851\"> In the Kupyansk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Dnieper directions, no active offensive actions by the enemy were recorded.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"853\" data-end=\"984\"> In the Liman direction, Ukrainian defenders thwarted three Russian attempts to advance in the areas of Drobyshevo, Liman, and Yampol.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"986\" data-end=\"1118\"> In the Konstantinovka direction, Russian forces launched five attacks near Konstantinovka, Toretsky, and Kucherov Yar. Two battles are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1120\" data-end=\"1341\"> In the Pokrovsk sector, the occupiers have attempted to push back Ukrainian troops 10 times in the areas of Rodinskoye, Grishinoye, Novoaleksandrivka, Pokrovsk, Kotlinoye, Udachnoye, and Molodetskoye. One clash is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1343\" data-end=\"1454\"> In the Aleksandrovsky direction, Russian troops attacked four times near Aleksandrograd and Kalinovskoye.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1456\" data-end=\"1690\"> The situation is most tense in the Hulyai-Polye area. There, the Defense Forces repelled 15 enemy attacks in the areas of Novi Zaporizhzhia, Dobropillya, Zheleznodorozhne, Hulyai-Polye, Lenokostiantynivka, and Volshebny. Four battles are still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1692\" data-end=\"1773\"> In the Orekhovsky direction, the occupiers carried out one offensive action in the Shcherbaki area.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1775\" data-end=\"1848\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> In other areas, no significant changes in the operational situation were recorded.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1775\" data-end=\"1848\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> 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:\/\/x.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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the start of the day, 38 combat clashes have been recorded on the Russian-Ukrainian front. The most active fighting continues in the Hulyai-Polye area, where Ukrainian forces have already repelled 15 attacks by the occupying forces. The General Staff reported this. Three military clashes occurred in the Severo-Slobozhansky and Kursk directions. Russian forces carried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1386246,"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-1395544","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\/1395544","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=1395544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1386246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}