““The time of restoration of power supply is currently unknown””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“All of Pokrovsk has been cut off in an emergency,” the department says.
As noted in the MBA, energy experts are investigating the cause of the electricity blackout.
“The time of restoration of electricity supply is currently unknown,” the administration warned.
Earlier, the former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (2014-2019), Viktor Muzhenko, stated in an interview with Radio Liberty that Russia does not aim to capture Pokrovsk directly, but seeks to blockade the city. According to him, the blockade of Pokrovsk “is more profitable for the Russian army, as it allows to minimize its own losses and at the same time creates significant problems for the defense of Ukrainian forces.”
Since December 5, the DeepState project reports on the daily advance of the Russian army to the southwest of Pokrovsk. And in the reports of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in recent months, the Pokrovsky and Kurakhiv directions are constantly mentioned as the places of the most active attacks by the forces of the Russian Federation.
British intelligence said on December 15 that Russian forces had made further gains south of Pokrovsk, a key logistics center in Donetsk region. And the experts of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), based on the study of geolocation data, write that now the Russian military is at a distance of about 10 kilometers from the border of the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, and “Putin may be putting pressure on the Russian military command to advance to the border , and not to capture Pokrovsk at this time.”