“Pokrovsk – a city with a population of about 1,260 people (estimated by the local authorities at the end of October, before the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation – more than 60 thousand) – is an important road and railway junction and was under threat of encirclement by Russian troops for most of the year”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“We continue to liberate and clear the territories, which forces the enemy to scatter their forces and makes it impossible to concentrate the main efforts in the Pokrovsk region. Last day, assault units in the area of the Dobropilsky salient advanced in separate directions. In total, during the operation, 188 km² were liberated, 248.7 km² were cleared of the enemy’s DRG,” the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces wrote on social networks on November 3.
According to Syrskyi, he is in Donetsk region, in particular in the zone of responsibility of the 7th rapid response corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“I listened to the reports of commanders on the ground regarding the current situation and urgent needs. Key issues: ensuring logistics, the actions of assault groups to dislodge the enemy from urban buildings. We are strengthening the troops with additional units, weapons, equipment, in particular unmanned systems,” the message says.
Earlier today, the 7th Rapid Response Corps of the Airborne Assault Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced that an operation to counter the Russian military was ongoing in the north of Pokrovsk, and the situation in Myrnograd was “tense, but not threatening.”
On November 2, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that there are results “in the destruction of the occupier” on the Pokrovsky front.
On October 26, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed the penetration of Russian troops into Pokrovsk.
Pokrovsk – a city with a population of about 1,260 people (estimated by the local authorities at the end of October, before the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation – more than 60 thousand) – is an important road and railway junction and was under threat of encirclement by Russian troops for most of the year.