Russia closes in on Pokrovsk and expands its control over Ukraine’s Kursk Two and a half years after the war began

Russia continued to increase Pressure on kyiv forces in DonetskPokrovsk is already almost 10 kilometers away from the logistics center Ukraine continues to attack the Kursk region and slowly expands its sphere of control.

“Fierce fighting continues on the Pokrovsk front,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged this Monday after hearing a statement from the head of the country’s armed forces, Oleksandr Chirsky. Zelensky added that his troops were doing everything possible to secure Doretsk, about 50 kilometers from Pokrovsk.

Considering the approach of the Russian forces, the local authorities announced Forced evacuation of minors from the area. “More than 53,000 people, including almost 4,000 minors, still live here, but recently the (fighting) front has come very close,” Vadim Flyashkin, governor of the Donetsk military administration, wrote in a telegram.

For this reason, he explained, the authorities have decided to forcibly evacuate minors and their legal guardians from Pokrovsk and Rodinske towns and a dozen surrounding towns.

Russia captured the new city

Meanwhile, the Russian army announced the capture of the Ukrainian town of Zhalizne, known as Artyomovo by the Russians, as it advanced towards Doretsk, one of the targets of the Russian offensive in the annexed Donetsk region.

“Units of the Tsentr (Center) Army Group liberated Artyomovo, one of the largest cities of the urban agglomeration of the Dzerzhinsk district of the Donetsk People’s Republic,” noted the Russian Defense Ministry’s daily statement.

Zalisne, known until 2016 as Artyomovo, a town with a population of around 5,000 before the start of the war, is less than four kilometers from Doretsk, and its capture would allow a Russian advance towards Konstantinovka, a vital crossroads used by Ukraine. to supply their forces.

Kyiv expands its zone of control

At the same time, Ukraine is ramping up its offensive in Kursk Penetrates into the border at a second point west of Glushkovo district, where it tries to isolate more than 50 towns and Russian forces in the area, by destroying bridges over the Seam River to the north and applying pressure. Areas already conquered in the east.

More than 11 square kilometers of Russian territory has come under Ukrainian control west of Glushkovo, where a new front is forming about 35 kilometers from the captured area west of Chudja.

According to the Deepstate analysis site, the town of Otruda and its surroundings are captured by Ukraine, indicating that another six kilometers and the town of Tetkino are also in dispute.

The deepstate questions control of more than 1,200 square kilometers of Russian territory and promises to be a war zone between the parties, while Ukrainian control is exercised over half of that territory.

Recruits in war

Amid the spread of fighting, parents of Russian soldiers serving their military service in the Russian army are sounding the alarm to avoid sending their children to war, as Russian officials have previously promised.

Concern for Russian parents follows the mass capture of Russian men in Kursk in the first days of the Ukrainian offensive and plans by authorities to strengthen border security by moving them from other parts of Russian territory.

Currently, about 300,000 recruits serve in the Russian army, half of whom were called up as part of last spring’s campaign.