War update: 175 clashes of front line, fiercest battles are in Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka sectors
Over the past day, 175 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the front line.
According to Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this in a summary as of 8:00 a.m. on February 21.
The enemy launched two missile strikes and carried out 89 air strikes, dropping 229 guided aerial bombs.
The Russians also used 7,846 kamikaze drones and carried out 2,967 shellings, including 69 from multiple launch rocket systems.
The Russian army struck with guided bombs on Velykomykhailivka and Pysanky in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Verkhnia Tersa, Zaliznychne, Hirke, Huliaipilske, Charivne, Liubytske, Lisne, Vozdvyzhivka, Kopani, Komyshuvakha, and Yuliivka in the Zaporizhzhia region, and Kozatske in the Kherson region.
The Rocket Forces and Artillery of the Defense Forces struck seven areas where personnel were concentrated, an artillery system, three command posts, and an ammunition depot belonging to the Russian invaders.
Three combat engagements took place in the Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors. The enemy carried out five air strikes, dropping six guided bombs, and carried out 72 shellings, two of which were with MLRS.
In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector, the Russians launched four assaults in the areas of Starytsia, Lyman, Vovchanski Khutory, and Kruhle.
Eight enemy attacks took place in the Kupiansk sector. Defense Forces repelled assaults in the area of Pishchane and toward Novoosynove and Kurylivka.
In the Lyman sector, the invaders attacked 10 times, trying to advance in the Zarichne area and toward Drobysheve, Lyman, and Stavky.
In the Sloviansk sector, the Defense Forces repelled 10 Russian attempts to advance in the areas of Yampil, Zakitne, Platonivka, and toward Rai-Oleksandrivka and Ozerne.
The enemy did not conduct any offensive operations in the Kramatorsk sector.
In the Kostiantynivka sector, Russian troops carried out 26 attacks in the areas of Pleshchiivka, Rusyn Yar, Sofiivka, and toward Kostyantynivka, Ivanopillia, Berestok, Novopavlivka, Illinivka, and Stepanivka.
In the Pokrovsk sector, Ukrainian defenders repelled 39 Russian assaults and offensive actions in the areas of Rodynske, Myrnohrad, Pokrovsk, Kotlyne, Udachne, Molodetske, Muravka, and Novomykolaivka, as well as toward Novooleksandrivka, Kucheriv Yar, Serhiivka, and Novopavlivka.
In the Oleksandrivka sector, the enemy attacked three times in the Stepove area.
In the Huliaipole sector, the Russian army made 18 attempts to advance in the areas of Huliaipole, Zahirne, and toward Varvarivka, Olenokostiantynivka, Zaliznychne, and Sviatopetrivka.
In the Orikhiv sector, the enemy attacked three times in the areas of Stepove, Mali Shcherbaky, and Stepnohirsk.
Russian troops made three unsuccessful attempts to advance in the Prydniprovske sector.
In the Volyn and Polissia sectors, there were no signs of the formation of offensive groups of the Russian army.
As reported by Ukrinform, the total combat losses of Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to February 21, 2026, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,258,890 soldiers.
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