According to the latest information coming from the front in Ukraine The Russians are constantly pushing against the defensive lines of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The hottest destination is Pokrovskwhere Russian units are achieving success at a surprisingly fast pace. In just one week They captured a territory of about 57 square kilometers.
The number of attacks using warplanes and artillery fire has increased significantly. In addition, the Russians are very keen they send infantry units to assaultoften poorly equipped, but very numerous.
– The Russians don't penetrate our defenses, they push them back. Every day they cover 100, 150, 200 meters and use tactics: dropping guided bombs, then a “meat attack” (using infantry – ed.), dropping guided bombs again and again a “meat attack” – notes Valery Romanenko, an expert on military aviation.
City Pokrovsk, which before the war was inhabited by over 61 thousand peopleis a strategically important logistics point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Through the town the M30 and E50 motorways run through here, as well as national roads leading to Kostiantynivka and Czasiwy Jar, among others.which are used to supply fighting units. In Pokrovsk there is also a railway junction connecting, even before the full-scale war, Kiev, Dnieper and Avdiivka.
Fighting in Donbas. Russians “destroy everything”
The increasingly difficult situation of the Ukrainian army forces the authorities to react and evacuation of civilians who are in frontline citiesAs Roman Buhajow, a representative of the humanitarian organization East SOS, notes, in the last two weeks the number of people seeking evacuation has increased significantly, as much as five-fold.
Reuters journalists reached, among others, Antonina Kalashnikova, a resident of the town of Novororodivka, located about 10 kilometers from the front line. The 62-year-old woman was evacuated with her disabled son Denys to Pokrovsk, which it is currently considered a “relatively safe point”.
– They started bombing intensively and it became terrifying. We didn't sleep all night and decided to leave. Russians are destroying everything – she reported.
As Kalashnikova admitted, her neighbors also made the decision to evacuate. A dozen or so people, who took the most necessary things with them, were evacuated on buses belonging to the aforementioned East SOS organization.
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