KYIV/POKROVSK, Ukraine - Russian assaults are raising pressure on the strategic eastern logistics hub of Pokrovsk, Ukraine said on Friday (Aug 2), as waves of guided bombs and infantry lead to some of Moscow's largest territorial gains since the spring.
Volunteers of East SOS evacuate a woman, as Russian forces advance across the frontlines in the Donetsk region, at the train station in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on Aug 2, 2024.KYIV/POKROVSK, Ukraine - Russian assaults are raising pressure on the strategic eastern logistics hub of Pokrovsk, Ukraine said on Friday , as waves of guided bombs and infantry lead to some of Moscow's largest territorial gains since the spring.
Russia's gains of around 57 square km in the space of a week are the third largest recorded since April after they made only modest gains in June, Pasi Paroinen, an analyst with the Black Bird Group, told Reuters. "It's a significant threat ... because the Pokrovsk and Toretsk fronts are taking a large share of the daily aviation strikes carried out on the positions of Ukrainian defenders."
"The Russians are not piercing our defence, they are pushing it back. They are advancing 100, 150, 200 metres every day using this tactic: dropping guided bombs, then a 'meat assault', repelled, dropping guided bombs again, a 'meat assault' again." That, he said, followed the Russian offensive into the northeastern Kharkiv region, which was halted by Ukraine, but opened a new front and spread the defenders extremely thin.Roman Buhayov, an evacuation driver from humanitarian organisation East SOS, told Reuters that the number of requests for evacuation in the area had increased about tenfold over the past two weeks.
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