Ukraine’s strategic city of Pokrovsk within the Donetsk area stays one of the vital embattled locations on the entrance line.
Present Time correspondent Oleksiy Prodayvoda, who visited Pokrovsk on April 29, mentioned that after the months of steady Russian assaults, the city seems to be “apocalyptic.”
Since late 2024, floor assaults have introduced little outcomes for the Russia’s advances. Now, the Russian army is “razing the city to the bottom,” Prodayvoda mentioned.
Fierce preventing has taken a heavy toll on Pokrovsk, which seems nearly uninhabitable, though some residents stay in place.
Attributable to more and more harmful circumstances, native residents have little capability to bury their family members on the town’s cemetery, a Ukrainian soldier preventing in Pokrovsk mentioned.
“A useless individual is simply taken out of the home and buried in a area…. It is a catastrophe,” he added.
Prodayvoda, who has been reporting from the entrance traces within the east and south of Ukraine because the starting of the full-scale invasion, says the distinction between battles for Pokrovsk and Bakhmut or Avdiyvika is the fiber-optic cables that each Russian and Ukrainian forces have begun to make use of lately.
“Garages, yards, bushes, poles — all the pieces is roofed in fiber cables from drones that fly over Pokrovsk day-after-day,” he added.
Earlier, Ukraine’s high commander, Oleksandr Syrskiy, mentioned Russian forces had been nonetheless “stubbornly” making an attempt to interrupt via Ukraine’s defenses and attain the border of the Dnipropetrovsk area.
With Pokrovsk positioned lower than 20 kilometers from Dnipropetrovsk, the world has now seen among the heaviest preventing.
On Might 3, senior communications officer in a Ukrainian brigade working in Pokrovsk instructed the US-based Institute for the Research of Conflict (ISW) the Russian forces are trying to advance into Dnipropetrovsk by Might 9.
In late April, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed a three-day cease-fire surrounding its Might 9 Victory Day remembrances — a proposal dismissed by Kyiv as “theater.”
“The Russians are definitely not going to stop fireplace utterly,” mentioned Ruslan, the Ukrainian soldier preventing in Pokrovsk.
“If it calms down right here, they may give nightmares to civilians…. You see what’s occurring. They’re launching over 100 Shahed-drones every night time,” he added.
