The troops of the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence have deployed a successful ambush in the Pokrovsk district, in the Donetsk region, in which they have caught the Russian soldiers by surprise, according to the media. .
In this operation, Ukrainian special forces used sniper fire to eliminate a group of Russian occupiers, in a display of “their precision and tactical expertise,” according to the Ukrainian media.
These operations, they have noted, are part of ongoing efforts to weaken the invaders by attacking their personnel and disrupting their logistics. The actions of the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence destabilize “the enemy’s rear and highlight Ukraine’s determination to recover its territories from temporary occupation,” they point out.
Despite this, the Russian Army claimed this Monday to have taken another town on the outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, the main objective of its current offensive in Donbas.
Units of the Center military group conquered the town of Pischane, which is a few kilometers from Pokrovsk, which had about 60,000 inhabitants before the war, according to the Ministry of Defense in its daily report. Pischane, inhabited until the beginning of the contest in 2022 by about 300 people, joins the takeover of Shevchenko on Saturday.
According to the Ukrainian command, Moscow has no intention of carrying out a frontal assault on Prokrovsk, but instead intends to surround and surround the city, which is home to important coke deposits.
In turn, Russian troops began this Monday the evacuation of the residents who still remain in Kurájove, a town further south taken by the Russians on January 6.
Moscow’s capture of Pokrovsk would not only mean a severe setback for kyiv and the supply routes for its forces in the Donbas, but would pave the way for the Russian advance towards Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Ukraine’s main strongholds in Donetsk.
