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Ukraine Invasion Day 1,246: UKR forces recently advanced near Toretsk and Pokrovsk. [1]

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Date: 2025-07-22

Russian forces conducted a series of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of July 21 to 22.

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**General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine**

*Operational information as of 22:00 21.07.2025 on the Russian invasion*

Since the beginning of the day, 139 combat engagements have taken place.

The enemy launched one massive missile attack with twenty-four missiles and forty-five air strikes, dropping sixty-one guided aerial bombs. It also used 1,251 kamikaze drones for attacks and fired 3,145 times at settlements and positions of our troops.

- At the North Slobozhansky and Kursk directions, Ukrainian defenders repelled eleven attacks of the invaders, and another firefight is still ongoing. The enemy conducted four air strikes, dropping six guided aerial bombs and fired 177 artillery rounds, including four from multiple launch rocket systems.

- In the South Slobozhansky sector, Ukrainian troops held off four enemy attacks near Vovchansk, Kamianka, Stroyivka and Kutkivka. One firefight is still ongoing.

- In the Kupyansk sector, our troops repelled six enemy attacks in the areas of Holubivka, Kupyansk, Pishchane, Zahryzove and Zelenyi Hai.

- In the Lyman sector, Ukrainian troops stopped eighteen enemy assaults near Novyi Myr, Karpivka, Kolodyazi, Yampolivka, Torske and in the direction of Serebryanka, Serednye, Shandryholove and Hryhorivka. Three more firefights are still ongoing.

- In the Siversky sector, the enemy conducted three offensives in the area of Serebryanka, Verkhnekamianske and Pereizne.

- In the Kramatorsk sector, our defenders repelled six attempts by the invaders to advance in the area of Bila Hora and towards Predtechyno.

- In the Toretsk sector, the occupants stormed the positions of our defenders nine times today in the areas of Diliyivka, Romanivka, Oleksandr-Kalynove, Novospaske and towards Katerynivka and Pleshchiyivka. The defense forces steadfastly restrained the attack and repelled all enemy attacks.

- During the day, the enemy carried out forty-three offensives in the Pokrovsk sector. Russian occupants were active near Udachne, Novoekonomichne, Lysivka, Zvirove towards Novoukrainka, Pokrovsk, Dachne, Myrnohrad and Mayak. Two firefights are still ongoing.

According to preliminary data, eighty-one occupants have been neutralized in this sector, forty-six of them irrevocably. In addition, Ukrainian troops destroyed five unmanned aerial vehicles and hit one enemy cannon.

- In the Novopavlivka sector, Ukrainian troops repelled nine attacks in the vicinity of Zirka, Piddubne, Myrne, Dachne and towards Oleksandohrad and Voskresenka. Four firefights are still ongoing.

- The enemy did not conduct any offensive actions in the Huliaipil sector.

- In the Orikhivsk sector, the enemy attacked the positions of our defenders three times near Kamianske, but the units of the Defense Forces successfully repelled the enemy's attack. In addition, enemy aircraft attacked the town of Stepnohirsk.

- In the Prydniprovsky sector, there was one firefight with the occupants in the direction of Prydniprovske. The enemy was not successful.

**Today, we should note the soldiers of the 140th separate reconnaissance battalion of the Naval Infantry of the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who are effectively destroying the enemy.**

Let's beat the occupants and bring our Victory closer!

Glory to Ukraine!

Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups reportedly recently advanced into southern Pokrovsk as Russian forces continue to pursue their operational objective of enveloping the town. Geolocated footage published on July 21 reportedly shows Russian forces engaging Ukrainian forces driving along the E50 Pokrovsk-Pavlohrad highway in southern Pokrovsk.[1] A source reportedly affiliated with Ukrainian military intelligence stated on July 21 that Russian sabotage groups of unspecified size advanced into Pokrovsk through Zvirove (southwest of Pokrovsk) "a couple days ago" and that Ukrainian forces are still searching for and destroying these Russian groups.[2] Ukrainian outlet Ukrainska Pravda reported on July 22 that Ukrainian military personnel operating in Pokrovsk confirmed that Russian sabotage elements entered the town on July 17 and that Ukrainian forces are conducting clearing operations.[3] Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General Oleksandr Syrskyi reported on July 18 that Ukrainian forces repelled a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group trying to penetrate Pokrovsk.[4] Geolocated evidence indicates that Russian forces are advancing close to Pokrovsk from the southwest. Geolocated footage published on July 21 indicates that Russian forces also recently marginally advanced east of Zvirove (southwest of Pokrovsk) after recently intensifying assaults south of Pokrovsk.[5] A Russian milblogger claimed that Russian forces advanced further northeast of Zvirove.[6] Another Russian milblogger claimed that Zvirove is a contested "gray zone."[7]

Ukrainian reports of Russian redeployments to the area and Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups entering Pokrovsk suggest that the Russian military is preparing to intensify assaults against the town in the near future. Ukrainian military observer Kostyantyn Mashovets reported on July 21 that the Russian military command recently redeployed elements of the Russian 1st and 9th motorized rifle brigades (both of the 51st Combined Arms Army [CAA], formerly 1st Donetsk People's Republic Army Corps [DNR AC], Southern Military District [SMD]) to reinforce the Russian force grouping attacking north and northeast of Pokrovsk.[8] Mashovets stated that the Russian military command intends to leverage these units to intensify efforts to envelop Pokrovsk and that elements of the 2nd CAA (Central Military District [CMD]) have simultaneously intensified assaults south of Pokrovsk. ISW continues to assess that Russian advances northeast of Pokrovsk support the envelopment of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad (just east of Pokrovsk) by interdicting the T-0515 Pokrovsk-Dobropillya highway and complicating Ukrainian egress routes from Pokrovsk.[9] Russian forces have largely struggled to advance southeast, south, and southwest of Pokrovsk due to Ukrainian drone operations since late 2024. Russian forces reportedly advanced into the outskirts of Myrnohrad in late August 2024 for a short time, but Ukrainian forces later pushed them from the town.[10] Russian forces may continue efforts to advance northeast of Pokrovsk while intensifying attacks against the town from the south and southwest in an effort to force Ukrainian forces to withdraw under threat of envelopment.

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