The Russian army is approaching Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region. Residents have up to two weeks to evacuate. Every day, 500-600 people leave the city. Today, local authorities began the forced evacuation of civilians. The city is home to more than 53,000 people, including 4,000… pic.twitter.com/0452DuD8pD
— Belsat in English (@Belsat_Eng) August 19, 2024
🇷🇺 The situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass is catastrophic, according to Bild analyst “Jihad” Julian Röpcke, who is analyzing the advance of the Russian army in the Pokrovsk and Toretsk directions.
“The Ukrainian authorities have ordered the evacuation of the… pic.twitter.com/hx1lzxlNST
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) August 19, 2024
The media keeps saying that the Ukraine is really great for marching six miles into Russia, but no one thought they didn’t have an army. Their army is in rough shape, but it exists.
They moved their army from the frontlines to invade a very small part of Russia. The Russians are going to close them off and entrap them. They don’t have any fortifications inside Russia. It was not a strategic move, it was a very expensive PR stunt that is going to cost them huge numbers of soldiers, and cannot accomplish anything (what could it possibly accomplish?).
Meanwhile, on the frontlines, the Ukraine has abandoned their fortifications and the Russians are just walking in, because their whole army is doing this suicidal safari gimmick.
Civilians in Ukraine’s eastern strategic logistics hub of Pokrovsk have no more than two weeks to evacuate as Russian troops press towards it, while those in nearby Myrnohrad have only a few days to leave, officials said on Monday.
The Pokrovsk front remains the area with the most intense fighting in eastern Ukraine with a record number of clashes reported last week as the Ukrainian military proceeds with its shock incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.
Moscow forces have been steadily inching forward in the Pokrovsk area in recent months. As of last week, they stood just over 10 kilometres from the outskirts of the city, local authorities said.
The head of city military administration Serhiy Dobriak on Monday stressed again that civilians should leave as fast as possible.
Civilians have “a week or two, no more,” Dobriak told Radio Liberty’s Ukrainian Service when asked about time left for evacuations considering the pace of Russian forces’ advance.
The civilians will be fine. Russia doesn’t kill civilians.
The actual issue is that the Ukraine is sacrificing the front lines on this stupid mission into Russia, because the Americans wanted this shit to get weird.
From Moscow
As predicted, Ukraines misadventure into Kursk is costing them dearly.
Many analysts are describing the last 2 days as the worst losses by Ukraine in 2 years.
Several essentially irreplaceable western supplied air defence systems, worth billions, were destroyed… pic.twitter.com/0gkryW1wVg
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) August 18, 2024