Enraged Russians in Pokrovsk: why subversive groups of the Russian Federation cannot solve the task of taking the city

Pokrovsk is by no means lost, and its surroundings are the result of the fantasy of alarmists and ill-informed experts, claims military observer Oleksandr Kovalenko. He admits that the situation in the city is difficult, but it has been that way since the end of last year - and explains how the Russian infiltration tactics work and what are its weak points.

There are many questions about Pokrovsk, and often they are related to some odious or frankly panicked statements about the rapid loss of the city and the environment in general, a breakthrough and other apocalyptic nature of the context. Well, without overloading with information, I will briefly try to describe the situation as I see it. First of all, I want to note that the situation in the Pokrovsk direction and directly in Pokrovsk is extremely difficult. . .

In principle, the way it has been here since the second half of December 2024, when the Russian Air Force was able to reach Novotroitske and thus completely close the southern underbelly of Pokrovsk. There is a nuance here. The ROV groups, and especially the 2nd, 41st and 51st OVA, were tasked with closing the issue with Pokrovsk by the end of 2024 and making every effort to do so.

They delayed the execution of this task by almost a year, while the 51st OVA managed to bleed to death in the failed Dobropilsk direction, pausing active actions in Chasovoy Yar, which the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "liberated" on July 31, 2025. . . And also in the Toretsk agglomeration, which the same Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation declared "liberated" on February 7, 2025, meanwhile, between Tericons of the Fomikha mines No. 10-No.

12 preserve the control zone of the SOU, not to mention Shcherbynivka and Novospaske. The entire burden of completing the overdue task fell on the 2nd OVA, which used a new tactic of infiltration of assault units, which was more like a wave sabotage operation. It consisted in sending small groups of DRGs of 2-3/3-4 people, often just single people, disguised in civilian clothes, which allowed them to infiltrate the neighborhood less visibly and deeper.

In parallel with ROV, fpv drones with a minimum warhead, but a more powerful battery, began to be used more often for reconnaissance in low-rise residential areas. The task was not only to identify the positions and observation/fire points of the SOU, for their further reflection, but also to form safer routes for the advance of the soldiers. As a result, today there are two main routes of infiltration into Pokrovsk in the Russian Armed Forces.

The first is through Leontovichi, along the right bank of Sazonov's lakes and creeks, through the cemetery, the private sector of Durnyak (such an area), with an exit at the same time to Pervomaika, the railway - the railway station and the Budmetal plant. It is important to understand that there are no control locations in this zone that could speak of unconditional anchoring.

Most of all, this is an infiltration zone, the clearing of which is possible, but complicated by the mixing of saboteurs with civilians and the constant replenishment of the dead in a non-stop mode. The second route is through Zelenivka, then the Lazurny and Pivdenny microdistricts to the Center. Unfortunately, in this case, the ROV has stable control zones along Yuvileynaya Street, which they used for infiltration thanks to the park zone.

In the Pivdenny micro-district of the ROV, the control zone is a sleeping bag on Memorialnaya street with the "Rosinka" kindergarten. It is worth noting that in the Center of the ROV they are trying to occupy buildings for accumulation, namely kindergartens, schools and hospitals, and there are enough of them on Shakhtobudivelnya, but the Sobachivka district, the eastern part of Pokrovsk, was not to their liking.

The day before, a small group of suicide bombers was spotted in the northern part of Pokrovsk, in the area of ​​Molodizhnaya Street. It is this point that many analysts now use to measure the distance to Pokrovsk's "surroundings", only the suicide bombers were eliminated there. This throw of lemmings was noticed, but did not produce any fruitful result, except for informational noise. So. The situation in the Pokrovska region is very difficult, but not deadlocked.

Due to the fact that there are few real control zones in the DOM in the city, and those that exist are vulnerable, the issue is to stabilize the situation by cleaning up the rednecks and cutting appendicitis along Juvileynaya. If everything is done measuredly and without fuss, Pokrovsk for infiltrated biomass can turn into 9 circles of hell. The main thing is not to interfere with your sage advice and tantrums on live broadcasts. We believe in SOU.