The situation to the south and southwest of Pokrovsk is extremely dynamic against the backdrop of the intensification of the offensive of Putin’s army and local counterattacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this section of the front.
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As NBN reports with reference to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), over the past 12 months the “second army of the world” has lost more than 5 tank divisions and thousands of “liberators” while trying to capture Pokrovsk.
Based on ISW analysis, the invaders continue to try to encircle the city from the eastern and western flanks, which indicates the intention of the Kremlin tyrant Vladimir Putin to seize all of Ukraine by military means, since it is not possible to implement such a scenario through peaceful negotiations.
Also, at the current stage of the war, the occupiers are trying to achieve three different tactical goals in the Pokrovsky direction:
- cut off the T-0504 Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka highway (northeast of the city);
- go around the city from the west;
- intensify the offensive in the direction of Novopavlovka (southwest of the city).
However, faced with effective opposition from our country's Defense Forces, Putin's army has so far achieved only limited success in the areas mentioned, since it was there that the defenders concentrated most of their counterattacks in February-April of this year.
Photo — understandingwar.org
Earlier we wrote about a military expert who named the goal of the Defense Forces' offensive on the Belgorod region.