The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are selected to Pokrovsk: Gray area near the outskirts of the city (map)
The direction of the impact of the Russian troops indicates that the enemy moves the lowlands on the approaches to the beast, towards two heaps. Practically the enemy is in a disadvantage, but south of Zelenivka, which is also adjacent to the outskirts of Pokrovsk, the territory has heights, which will theoretically make firing positions for shelling directly Pokrovsk.
Meanwhile, on the maps, this plot is marked with a "gray zone", although the Ukrainian military received information about attempts to penetrate hostile sabotage groups. However, whether the appearance of the "gray zone" with the actions of Russian saboteurs in this area of the LBZ is unknown. As the press service of OTU Donetsk reported on July 20, small groups of Russian storms tried to seep into the city, but they were destroyed on the approach. "The situation is under full control.
All attempts by the enemy to penetrate into the city end in defeat - sabotage groups are neutralized on the approaches to Pokrovsk," the message reads. On the northern flank of the Pokrovsky direction, the enemy concentrated the most forces and means.
According to the spokesman, Khortytsia was Viktor Tregubov, the Russians are trying to develop an offensive on Konstantinovka, as well as to bypass Pokrovsk from the flanks through Mirnohrad with the threat of creation of a half -hole on a large area of the Pokrovsky direction. This is also evidenced by foreign sources.
According to the French OSINT analyst of Clement Molin, the greatest threat to Ukrainian defense is the attempts of Russian troops to establish control over the roads of Pokrovsk's supply. It is about the control of settlements luck and Rodinsky, which will allow the enemy to cut off the logistics of the garrison that defends the city.
Commenting on the situation on this section of the front, the military analyst Alexei Hetman noted that, despite the statements of Russian propagandists about "the main assault of Pokrovsk", the Russian forces failed to achieve neither the operational nor the tactical environment of the city. "Physically, the unit can get out of this area if there are exits. When the retreat is controlled by the enemy with fire - artillery or drones, it is a tactical environment.
The Russians did not work out for a year trying to take Pokrovsk," - explained the expert also expressed doubt about the expediency of the choice. In his opinion, from a military point, it would look more logical to blow to Konstantinovka, where an important railway branch is passed. We will remind, through the offensive of the Russian Federation on the Eastern Front there was a difficult situation in the Pokrovsky direction.