They will fight in the city: the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation slow down the promotion to Pokrovsk - isw (maps)
This means that the enemy is ahead - street fights that will slow down the movement of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to Pokrovsk. Analysts of the Institute of War (ISW) in the report published in the morning of August 21 were told about the situation on one of the areas of the front in the Donbass. ISW analysts have named 10 settlements, near which active assaults of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue.
To the east of Pokrovsk - it is Vozdvizhenko, Mikhail, green field: the Armed Forces keep the defense and do not depart. To the southeast is Grodivka, Marynivka, Mykolaivka, Komyshivka, Novogrodivka, Kalynivka, Ptich and Magic. If you mark the settlements on Google Maps, we see that the estimated length of the front line near Pokrovsk is about 40-50 km.
The Institute of War Study identified three directions of strokes: towards Mirnograd through Grodivka, towards the T0504 highway Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka, towards the highway M04 Karlovka-Selidov-Pokrovsk. The report states that the Russians began fighting in city agglomeration near Pokrovsk, in particular, in Grodivka. Previously, they moved mainly by rural areas.
Analysts indicate that it is more difficult to conduct urban battles than in the fields, so they expect that the promotion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will slow down. However, they emphasized that the ability of the Armed Forces to keep the defense depends on how "they will be equipped and equipped", it will be said on the ISW portal.
"Russian troops will start fighting in more urban areas of settlement, and Russian troops can be difficult to maintain the current rate of promotion," - summed up analysts. Kurakhivskyi, Seajarivsky, Toretsky directions in the Kurakhiv direction continue battles in Krasnogorivka, explained on the ISW portal. Russian troops assure that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are storming near Konstantinovka, Sweet, Water, Vladimir and Hall, but they have no success.
Under Toretsk, the enemy attacks the surrounding area, seized the dumps of mines. Artem, and the Armed Forces fighters claim that they hold 20% of New York. There was no confirmed changes on the front line on the Siverskaya Rar to Siversk, writes ISW. Kharkiv and Kupyansky directions, according to the statements of Russian Milblograries, ISW writes, an attempt was made by the Armed Forces near the village of Hlyboki, located north of Kharkov.
The fighting was attended by near a platoon of the Ukrainian military. Time, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched on the Volchansk shells of the flame-meta system "Tos-1": according to the Ukrainian command, it speaks of preparation for land storms. The front line of this direction has not changed, analysts noted. A similar situation, that is, unchanged, under Kupyansk.
At the same time, Russian troops assure that there are success in the Armed Forces in the middle between Kupyansk and Kreminna (forced the Zherebets River near Makivka and advanced near Kolesnykivka).
The Zaporizhzhya and Prydniprovsky directions of the Ukrainian command, which analysts refer to, reported the attempts of attacks by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation towards the robot, in the Delta Dnipro near the Krynok: changes in this shade were not found, according to the ISW report as of August 20. It should be noted that Deepstate analysts in the morning of August 21 reported the promotion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Pokrovsky direction.
The enemy managed to move Ukrainian positions at a distance of 300 m to 1 km. In addition, the Russians have slight success to the north of the time ravine and near Kupyansk, indicated in the report. In New York, the area controlled by Ukrainian fighters has increased by an updated warfare. We would like to remind that on August 20, Russian troops declared a complete occupation of New York: there was a reaction of the Armed Forces General Staff to the possibility of promoting the enemy.