Russian-Ukraine War: With Russia and Ukraine still in Loggerheads, the first of them accumulated 1,10,000 soldiers near Pokrovsk as part of its efforts to take over the strategic Eastern Ukrainian city, said the Ukrainian military boss.
Moscow considers Pokrovska a strategic goal, because Russian President Vladimir Putin explained that his goal is to entertain all Eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, which partially occupies its forces, CNN reported.
While he spoke of development, the military chief of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi further stated that the area around Pokrovsk was the “hottest place” along 1,200 kilometers (745 miles), which runs through the east of Ukraine.
Why is Pokrovsk important
While Pokrovsk is not a key city, the “strategic place” is located on a key supply road and a railway that connects it with other military nodes in this area. Pokrovsk, along with the bostiantnivka, Kramatorsk and Words, forms the backbone of the Ukrainian defense in the part of the Donetsk region, which is still under the control of Kiev.
Moreover, the last operating coal coal mine of Ukraine was in Pokrovsk with most of their employees who remained in this area to maintain it. After being forced to close at the beginning of this year, people began to leave.
When Russia was forced to leave your plan to take over Pokrovsk
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a conflict monitor based in the US, said at the end of last year that the Ukrainian defense operations in Pokrovsk forced Russia to leave their original plan to take Pokrovsk in the frontal attack.
About 60,000 lived in Pokrovsk before the war, but most left in three years since Russia launched its full invasion in February 2022, CNN reported.
Russo-Ukrainian war
Russian drones were hit by the Southern Ukrainian port city Senda overnight, killed two people and injured at least 17, the Ukrainian authorities said on Saturday.
Meanwhile, three offensive helicopters and an anti -aircraft missile system were destroyed on the Russian Crimean Peninsula, reported on news agencies.
The Ukraine Security Services Agency deployed special drones to attack the KironSke military airport, a Ukrainian official said on Saturday.
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