Pokrovsk front is in collapse

 Thanks to NOBLE for the link!

via Reddit

At this stage, I would say its safe to say the Pokrovsk front is in collapse. All reports point to Ukrainian command in this area being in complete disarray, unable to properly plan the defence nor respond to the rapidly changing situation. Ukrainian units are understrength, underarmed, and having to man an increasingly large stretch of front line, when they were already having issues holding when the front here was much smaller, and they were in strong defensive positions. Individual units are retreating, surrendering or being cut off without communicating to one another, leading to numerous gaps in the front line, and soldiers being wiped out (killed, wounded or captured) by the quickly moving Russian force, who are leveraging the chaos to make great progress.

Ukraine is losing multiple settlements every week, including towns that should have been able to hold for months. Their Vovcha River defence line, a heavily fortified line which I have spoken about at length this year, is being rapidly undone, with Ukrainian forces unable to handle Russian assaults coming from behind it. With this line falling, Ukraine is losing its best defensive position in central Donetsk Oblast, and has few defences set up further west to fall back to.

3 critically important cities are either already being assaulted, or under imminent threat of assault, which will result in a severe degradation, or outright cutoff, of supplies to a huge proportion of the frontline in Donetsk. There are tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers whose supplies run through those areas, who will be forced to retreat if/when those cities fall, if they are not killed or captured before they can.

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This is a stunning read.

I wondered why the Russians haven't launched a vicious counter attack against Ukrainian forces but now I know.

The assault in Russia will be dealt with in due time.

Seizing even more Ukrainian territory is on the menu right now. They can simply hold on their own land and when the time is right destroy those units in total.

Additionally Russia continues to attack Ukrainian power generation plants.

Winter is coming and its gonna hurt.