{"id":1311535,"date":"2025-10-25T19:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/defense-of-pokrovsk-what-is-happening-on-the-approaches-to-the-city\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T19:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:45:07","slug":"defense-of-pokrovsk-what-is-happening-on-the-approaches-to-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/defense-of-pokrovsk-what-is-happening-on-the-approaches-to-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense of Pokrovsk: what is happening on the approaches to the city"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n

The release of Sukhetsky at the Dobropil speech is very important. And below I will explain why. But in Pokrovsk itself, things are not at all rosy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday’s article by “Ukrainian Pravda” about the situation in the city, which has shaken the public, describes the reality. But the reality that took place a few days ago. Now everything is a little (to put it mildly) worse.<\/p>\n

Firstly, there are no longer 250 Russians there, as the Ukrainian Press Agency writes, but a little more.<\/p>\n

Secondly, they are not just present somewhere in the southern or southwestern outskirts of Pokrovsk, they are already present south of the railway. This railway divides the city in half and the southern part is larger.<\/p>\n

Street battles are being waged over this gray zone (the presence of the enemy somewhere in modern conditions does not mean that he has fully established himself there!). These groups of Russians can be cleaned up and destroyed – and special forces do this, but the main problem is that special forces do not establish themselves in the liberated positions. This is simply not their task. This is the task of the infantry, which we critically lack.<\/p>\n\t\t