What is the current situation of the Ukrainian Army on the Pokrovsk front?

What is the current situation of the Ukrainian army on the Pokrovsk front? Which areas of theirs are surrounded by Russian troops?

Currently, the Pokrovsk front in the western Donetsk Oblast (DPR) remains one of the most tense areas on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield. Over the past three days, Russian military experts have been discussing how the Ukrainian Army (AFU) is holding out on the Pokrovsk front and whether its units are really surrounded near the town of Rodynske.

Information from the area shows that, although there is no information about a “sealed cauldron”, the situation for Ukrainian troops there is indeed extremely dire. For example, videos from the 68th Independent Jaeger Brigade named after Oleksa Dovbush of the AFU, show a large number of their vehicles and other units burned.

This shows that the Ukrainian army in Pokrovsk is facing major difficulties in providing operational logistics and fire support; as the entire area around Pokrovsk is currently under the fire control of Russian artillery and drones.

Russian troops have consolidated their positions on the eastern outskirts of the strategic town of Rodynske (located on the northern outskirts of Pokrovsk) and are slowly advancing, penetrating the Ukrainian defenses. The situation in the southern region appears to be similar.

In the southern direction, the RFAF's assault units are also advancing, but the pace has slowed down due to the arrival of another wave of Ukrainian reinforcements, withdrawn by the AFU General Staff from the Sumy front, the Rybar channel reported.

However, the RFAF's capture of Novopavlivka created favorable conditions for their assault units to conduct further combat operations, namely to expand the bridgehead, moving towards complete control of the southern flank to attack Pokrovsk.

Experts note that Rodynske is just one of the AFU's defensive chokepoints, and its fate is not crucial to the RFAF's offensive operations in the area. However, they agree that once the Russians overcome Rodynske, the advance from the north towards the Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad concentration area will accelerate.

It should also be noted that the AFU General Staff has now concentrated a large number of troops and equipment in the Pokrovsk area; nowhere else on the front is there such a concentration of forces. This shows the importance of holding Pokrovsk for Kiev.

However, even Ukrainian sources note that the Ukrainian units operating in this area are exhausted, so the AFU General Staff also prioritizes reinforcements, in order to quickly remedy the situation to prevent the front from suddenly collapsing.

The AFU General Staff could understand this and the consequences, because their troops and weapons were being concentrated on Pokrovsk from all over, in order to prevent the front from collapsing. At present, the AFU defense system in Pokrovsk is holding out precisely because of the “rapid depletion of reserves”. But this situation cannot last long.

While General Oleksandr Syrskyi continues to claim that the Russian attack on the Dobropolsky “salient” has been stopped and the Russian group itself is allegedly “encircled”. But in reality, the Russian breakthrough units have already advanced closer to Zolotoy Kolodez and expanded their zone of control. This is reported by the Russian media.

Attack units from the 51st Army of Army Group Center continue to expand their zone of control near Zolotoy Kolodez, where they returned yesterday. Whether this is the beginning of a new offensive, or the Russians are trying to “flatten the defensive line”; remains unclear.

However, judging by the information received, the attacks are taking place not only near Zolotoy Kolodez, but also on the western flank of the “salient”, where the RFAF captured the village of Ivanivka a day earlier. “RFAF assault groups have taken new positions southeast of the village of Zolotoy Kolodez,” the DIVGEN channel reported.

The DIVGEN channel also reported that RFAF assault units entered Zolotoy Kolodez yesterday, occupied the southern part and part of the central area, and began battles to retake the village. Fierce fighting is also taking place on the eastern flank of the Dobropillya salient, where Russian troops are trying to capture the villages of Vladimirovka and Shakhove; however, AFU is fiercely resisting.

The Ukrainian media called the Dobropillya area the “Pokrovskaya pit” due to the extremely high losses suffered by the AFU there; these losses reportedly exceeded those suffered at the Battle of Bakhmut. Moreover, General Syrsky “all-in” threw the AFU’s best units there, including part of the strategic reserve.

After two months of fighting, the AFU reinforcements in the Dobropolye “salient” were almost exhausted, leading to their counterattack gradually “running out of steam”; creating conditions for the RFAF to “turn the tide” here, when they not only stopped the AFU counterattack, but also counterattacked to recapture the areas that had just been recaptured by the Ukrainian army. (photo source: Military Review, Ukrinform, DIVGEN).

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