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Russia has continued to make rapid advances in eastern Ukraine toward the key city of Pokrovsk, sparking public criticism of the Ukrainian military leadership and raising questions about Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s decision to launch a bold incursion into the Russian Kursk region.

For months, Russian forces have been attempting to seize Pokrovsk, a strategically important mining town with a prewar population of about 60,000, but their advance has gained considerable momentum in recent weeks.

Deep State, a Ukrainian group close to Ukraine’s defence ministry that tracks frontline activities, reported that Russian forces on Friday were less than 10km (6 miles) from the outskirts of Pokrovsk, where local officials have ordered a mass evacuation.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

it doesn’t have strategic implications.

It has two strategic implications:

one: the place where they stashed all the rich / important kids got fucked.

two: pressure on neighboring regions is drawing forces from elsewhere, even while RU tries to drive against Pokrovsk - but losing @1000-1300 people every fucking day and gaining little more than abandoned (and boobytrapped) trenches and shelled husks of the outlying neighborhoods.

If Ukrainian artillery starts operating inside Kursk in large scale, shit's gonna get REALLY fun quick.