Pokrovsk: The City That Won’t Fall Until It Does | Ukraine’s Fiercest Frontline Battle | 4K

Prosk, once a bustling coal mining city in eastern Ukraine, is now a battlefield . For almost 2 years, it has been one of Kiev's main strongholds in the Donbass region . But in recent weeks, Russian troops have pushed deeper into the ruins, using assault teams, drones, and artillery fire . Most of the city is destroyed . Is the fall of Pukovsk only a matter of time ? Fighting in Pukovsk is unlike anything seen before . There is no fixed front line anymore . Only basement, upper floors, and shattered buildings . Russian troops crawl forward in tiny groups, often sacrificing two soldiers just to get one through . Ukrainian drone units destroyed dozens every day, but more keep coming . Commanders on the ground say they are almost surrounded, but used to it . Pocruffs sits on a web of key highways and railway lines . Once vital for Ukraine supply routes to Donetsk and Zaparidzia , it was also home to Ukraine's last active coing coal mine . Capturing Pocropovsk would help Moscow control the roads that link several other Ukrainian defensive cities Duskfka, Crmaturk and Sloviansk . But today its practical value is fading . Constant bombardment has destroyed infrastructure and Kief has already shifted its logistics elsewhere . It is very important for Russia to do everything to really capture Pokrosk in any format to show success on the battlefield . Whether it is going to be Vchansk or something else, they need to show success . Then they will be able to return try to return the narrative . We told you that we will capture Donbas . [Music] Analysts say Pocrs has become a symbolic more than a strategic one. Moscow wants to show that progress in Donbas is still possible even if it comes at enormous cost. It is the biggest Russian push since Bakmut fell in 2023. For Putin, Pokovsk would be proof that Russia's long grinding war is still moving forward. For Ukraine, holding it has become a matter of morale . Proof that resistance can still hold in the east . I cannot express it in words. This is painful to think about the people, the houses. First and foremost, it is certainly about the people. Civilians still live there . I feel frustrated about the whole situation. Why is this war happening