Putin’s ‘Mad Max’-Style Onslaught in Pokrovsk | Russian Forces Advance | Ukraine Russia News-N18G

Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat Russia's defense ministry says its forces are advancing in the Ukrainian city of PRO. as it released video set to show strikes on a nearby village. The Ukrainian military response is that Russian troops do not have full control of any district in the eastern rail and road hub. So why is there a long-running battle for its control ? Prosk is a logistics and transport base in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk province . Russians call it Krasnarisk, its Soviet era name . It sits on a key road used by to supply other outposts. It had a pre-war population of some 60,000 people . Most have now fled the city and its battered buildings . About 6 milesi west of Broc is Ukraine's only mine producing coing coal used in its once vast steel industry . Operations were suspended in January . Ukraine still controls about 10% of the Donbass region which Russia wants in its entirety . It's an area of just under 2,000 square miles in northern Dyetsk oblast or province in the Donbass. Porcavsk is dubbed the gateway to Detsk by Russian media . Capturing it would give Moscow a platform to drive north towards the two biggest remaining Ukrainian controlled cities in Dyetsk, Sloviansk and Katossk. Here is Rob Lee, senior fellow at the US-based foreign policy research unit . I think Sylvian's chromator is really still the most kind of vital important part of DES Gobos for Ukraine to defend is still the really the the the center for command and control for logistics uh and for you know for holding much of the front line . It kind of operates in these two cities . It would also give Moscow its most important single territorial gain inside Ukraine since it took Abdka not far from Prosk in early 2024. Moscow has been threatening Pocrs since mid 2024. Instead of a full frontal assault, its military is gradually encircling the city , deploying small units and drones to disrupt Ukrainian military logistics before sending in larger reinforcements. Kiev says Russia's offensive has seen its forces sustain huge losses . Moscow says it is Ukraine with its much smaller population