Russian troops are making significant gains near Pokrovsk, a vital Ukrainian city in the Donetsk region. Its strategic location and role as a logistics hub make its capture a major objective for Moscow.
Russia n forces have advanced near the city of Pokrovsk , according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), whose map shows the situation around the city that is key to Moscow's ambitions of seizing the wider Donetsk region. Newsweek has contacted the Russia n and Ukrainian defense ministries for comment. Russia n forces are advancing quickly toward Pokrovsk from the east and south and are now less than two miles from the center of the city that had a prewar population of 60,000.
At the crossroads of rail and road links, Pokrovsk is a key delivery and distribution hub for Ukraine's forces across a wide part of the front line and its loss would cause serious logistical problems. Pokrovsk has been referred to as a 'fortress' settlement, key to Ukrainian defenses in the east and connected to other critical defensive cities, like Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka. Its location around 12 miles from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast means that its capture by Moscow could allow Russian troops to move more easily into another region. In its update on Wednesday, the ISW said geolocated footage showed Russian advances near the railway line to the south of Pokrovsk, with pro-Moscow military bloggers claiming that half the nearby settlement of Dachenske had been seized. The Washington, D.C., think tank noted there were conflicting accounts from milbloggers, which included descriptions of Russian advances from the southwest and assaults on Pischane, as well as Ukrainian counterattacks near Shevchenko. Its latest map shows Russian advances north of Novyi Trud on Wednesday and Novovasylivka the previous day, as well as Ukrainian advances west of Shevchenko on December 15. The head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration Vadym Filashkin said on Wednesday that Russian forces are just under two miles away from Pokrovsk and authorities had evacuated all children and their families from the city
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