Posted on 12/12/2024 5:03:45 AM PST by McGruff
Fighting around the key eastern Ukraine city of Pokrovsk is “extremely intense” after a monthslong Russian push, Ukraine’s top military commander said, with analysts estimating Russian forces are now within just a few kilometers (miles) of the city.
“Russian occupiers are throwing all available forces forward, attempting to break through the defenses of our troops,” Ukrainian army chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi said in a Facebook post late Wednesday. His forces are outnumbered, he said.
Ukraine’s stretched defenses in Donetsk have been creaking since early this year under a fierce Russian drive to capture its neighbor’s entire eastern Donbas region. Russian forces are trying to overwhelm Ukraine’s battlefield defenses with sheer numbers of troops and powerful glide bombs that blast fortifications to smithereens.
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The Ukie Commander says he is outnumbered.
Ruzzia will take that City too.
A renowned Ukrainian military officer, Serhii Filimonov, commander of the “Da Vinci Wolves” battalion of the 59th Motorized Brigade, described Pokrovsk’s defense as a “disaster.”
Fighting will intensify as we get closer to Jan 20, 2025. Each side is positioning themselves for the anticipated negotiations. Needless deaths in a war that could and should have been avoided. Merry Christmas.
May this insane war and killing end soon. It never would have happened under Trump. And we would be billions of dollars better off with less inflation.
Russia is pushing toward Pokrovsk, a strategic city for Ukraine's army with important rail and road connections, in a rapid capturing of ground in the Donetsk region.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-pokrovsk.html
Not sue why, but some are saying it’s a key city in the defense of that region.
Ok, starting to see why.
3-4 highways go through it, and a significant railroad with depots etc.
Also a sizable town:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/dmd9F69FMdXj2W3j9?g_st=ic
(switch to satellite, then expand and you can find the rail yards)
Mostly wiped out, as unclaimed Russian bodies pile up behind walls, troops sent in without armor.
See: War in Ukraine Explained
Footage: Russian Bodies Piled Up. Total Meat Wave Failure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQIu_NJcJXw
The author of your linked video is another Ukie Propaganda Minister.
RUAF Now Within 2.5KM From Pokrovsk As They Storm Final Line of Defense Ahead of the Settlement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9ppd_jcQhg
NY Times (today, while they push to get Ukraine more weapons): “Russian Troops Advance to Within 3 Miles of Key Ukrainian Transit Hub”
NY Times (next week): “Russian Troops take over Meaningless Town”
Bank on it.
Glad they made that conversion from kilometers to miles for us so we know just how far they are without having to look up the differential on google.
The answer is obviously to send more Ukrainian troops to Kursk.
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