Situasjonen er fortsatt kritisk i øst med beleiringen av Pokrovsk.
It is hard to overestimate the importance of Pokrovsk both for Ukraine and for Russia.
Pokrovsk has been one of the strongholds of Ukraine’s eastern front. Its geographic location not only makes it arguably one of the most important logistics hubs, but it is also scarily close to what has been seen as Ukraine’s deep rear.
Dnipro — one of the biggest cities in Ukraine with a population of around 1 million people — to Pokrovsk is only about 2.5 hours away by car. Pokrovsk is also just 20 kilometres away from the administrative border of the Donetsk region — the line the Kremlin has been trying to reach since 2014, as Russian forces aim to seize all of Donetsk and Luhansk.





