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A high-rise building in the center of Pokrovsk, damaged by Russian shelling, on January 21, 2025 (Photo: REUTERS/Inna Varenytsia)
During January 2025, the Russian invaders got as close as possible to Pokrovsk and, as of January 10, destroyed almost all of the city’s critical infrastructure.
On January 20, Pokrovsk also experienced a massive attack on the central part of the city. As a result of the shelling, the apartments from the third to the ninth floors of the two entrances of the nine-story residential building caught fire. The fire was contained on an area of 1,000 m², but due to the threat of repeated shelling and the activity of enemy aircraft, its liquidation had to be stopped.
The city suffered another attack on December 22, when a private house and a car caught fire as a result of the attack.
NV publishes a photo report from Pokrovsk.
What is known about the situation in the Pokrovsky direction
On January 10, Serhiy Dobryak, the head of the Pokrovsk city military administration, said that the front line is located a few kilometers from Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. Almost all critical infrastructure in the city has been destroyed.
On January 12, the military reported that the occupiers had changed their tactics in the Pokrovsky direction and were trying to bypass the city from the south to the west in order to get to the Dnipropetrovsk region. Viktor Tregubov, the spokesman of the Khortytsia Security Service, confirmed that the invaders want to bypass Pokrovsk and Myrnograd from the south.
At the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported on January 14 that Russian troops had already cut several routes to the southwest and east of Pokrovsk — presumably in an attempt to cover Pokrovsk and Mirnograd in order to disrupt the logistics of the Defense Forces of Ukraine and force them to retreat from the cities without a fight.
On January 16, it became known that the workers of the mine in Pokrovsk blew up its shaft so that the Russian invaders could not reach the underground tunnels. This mine is the only one in Ukraine where coking coal, necessary for the steel industry, was mined.
On January 17, People’s Deputy Maryana Bezugla said that “the Russians entered Pokrovsk.” The Khortytsia Police Department denied the statement and noted that fighting continues on the approaches to the agglomeration.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi said that the Defense Forces are making maximum efforts to protect Pokrovsk.