Posted on 08/04/2025 8:15:55 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
As the Russian advances accelerate for fourth straight month, Ukrainians have lost the strongholds of Donetsk region’s Toretsk and Chasov Yar, and the Russians have also entered the city of Kupyansk, on the northern Kharkov region.
In the meantime, the siege of Pokrovsk continues, and even Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky had to confirm that ‘small groups’ of the Russian Armed Forces are ‘breaking through’ to Pokrovsk.
As August arrives, the attackers advanced on the Sukhetsky suburb north of Rodinsky.
Slavyangrad reported:
“At the moment, it seems that the deepening of the defense crisis of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the northern part of the [Pokrovsk] agglomeration has begun. This approach corresponds to the typical Russian tactic of cumulative pressure: first the progressive expulsion of the enemy from the peripheral lines, then blows to the logistics and command nodes, and finally breaks in several directions to disorganize the defense.”
According to the Ukrainian Telegram channel ‘Legitimiy’, defending units have requested to get out of the impending trap of encirclement, but the command has refused.
This comes as the southern flank of the Ukrainian defense is systematically disintegrating.
In the meantime, Russian DRG (Diversion Reconnaissance Groups) move in the gaps in defense fortifications to launch deep strikes and hit-and-run assaults.
Watch: the small mining town of Rodinsky, located on the main highway to Pokrovsk, is under attack.
Today (4), German paper Die Welt reports that Pokrovsk is surrounded on three sides.
“’Russians penetrate like water into any, even the smallest crack’, says [Ukrainian] Colonel Marcus Reisner, explaining the success of the slow but steady Russian offensive. According to him, the reasons are the constant depletion of Ukrainian defensive positions, excessive stretching of the front line, and systematically applied tactics of Russian troops.”
So, with Pokrovsk in operational encirclement on the northern front and under active attacks on the southern and central parts, it appears that the collapse is approaching.
Gayway Pundit? Lol!
SIEGE OF POKROVSK: Russian Forces Encircle Key Stronghold, Reach Its Outskirts – City is a Key Logistics Hub and the Last Fortified Bastion Before the Dnieper River (VIDEOS)
27JUL2025
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/siege-pokrovsk-russian-forces-encircle-key-stronghold-reach/
Will you be laughing after the Ruskies take Prokrovsk?
Jim Hoft is married to a man.
What does that have to do with the news story? And who is Jim Hoft?
Disaster Unfolding For Ukraine With Simultaneous Russian Offensives Towards Several Logistical Hubs
by Weeb Union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEWu-NVGxVk
They act like this would be the same as Stalingrad or Berlin
The Soviet Union took 3 years and 8 months to take Berlin, pitin has taken 3 years and 6 months to almost take pokrovsk.
You want to be Little Zelya's piano keyboard, marcus.
Your Putin has 4 days left to end his invasion.
You want to polish Little Zelya's piano wand.

“President Trump wasn’t joking about his Easter deadline to Putin.” - clownusmaximus
"Pitin" / Russia is at war with the whole of NATO and the UK, so they had to prepare for a war against a million-man army, armed with NATO's top weapons, NATO/USA intel and all its planning and coordination.
Moreover, this war won't stop with Ukraine. NATO will definitely throw the Baltics into the war next.
Its ridiculous to have expected a quick resolution.
Who expected a quick resolution, I didn’t, but love the narrative of Russia being the victim
Russian Mir is truly amazing
“According to the Ukrainian Telegram channel ‘Legitimiy’, defending units have requested to get out of the impending trap of encirclement, but the command has refused.”
This doesn’t make any sense for an army that is short of men.
Hmm. But then again....
"The Senate on Monday confirmed billionaire hedge fund manager and investor Scott Bessent as President Trump's Treasury secretary, making him the highest-ranking LGBTQ official in the nation's history. "The adage about "throwing stones in glass houses" comes to mind. This is why Z running naked through a workplace still has its "cachet."Source: Bessent makes history at Treasury as highest-ranking LGBTQ official The Hill, 27 January 2025
It is amusing that so many "measures" involve double standards. And those who use them in this way are usually fully aware of that.
The couple met in 2016 while on a Christmas vacation. Since then, the two have traveled together throughout Southeast Asia, from Hong Kong to Bali to Phuket. In 2017, Jezreel chose to move from the Philippines, where Filipino law does not yet recognize same-sex marriage, to the United States so the two can be wed.
Oh, thank you for that! And so, to further the thread's turning "queer" ----
"Scott Bessent’s husband John Freeman previously worked a prosecutor in New York City. It is unclear whether Freeman still practises law. The couple were married in 2011, and have two children – Cole and Caroline."Source: Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent becomes highest-ranking out gay person in US history Pink News, 29 January 2025
Pick up another stone and hurl it at the glass....
Jezreel? Is that you?
Lol, insane Russian talking point. How could Nato throw the Baltics into a war with Russia, unless Putin's army invades the Baltics, just like they invaded Ukraine?
I swear, the Putin supporters are becoming really unhinged now that Trump and their boy Putin are feuding
Oh, oh and oh, thank you for that comment too! You are demonstrating the inane foolishness of slurs and innuendo, which are never a substitute for honest and open debate. My wife and I chuckle at your "queer" debate tactic.
'Homophobia is Russia': Inside Kyiv's LGBT pride parade KYIVPRIDE

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