Russian forces push forward in Pokrovsk, other areas
Destruction on the streets of Pokrovsk, March 25, 2025 (Photo: Iryna Rybakova/Press Service of the 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade/Handout via REUTERS)
Russian invasion forces advanced in the Donetsk Oblast city of Pokrovsk and near the villages of Kamyanka in Kharkiv Oblast and Novohryhorivka in Zaporizhzhya Oblast, the DeepState monitoring group reported on Nov. 2.
Kamyanka is a village in the Dvorichna municipality of Kupyansk district in Kharkiv Oblast; Novohryhorivka lies in the Huliaypole municipality of Polohy district in Zaporizhzhya Oblast.
On Oct. 31, several media outlets citing sources reported that special units and aviation from Ukraine's Defense Ministry Main Directorate launched a complex airborne operation in Pokrovsk, with reconnaissance assault teams entering city districts that Russian generals had already declared "captured."
Previously, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the situation on the Pokrovsk front remains difficult but that there is no encirclement of Defense Forces units there.
In its Nov. 1 report, the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War said Russian troops had intensified assault operations near Pokrovsk, aiming to fully capture the city, with recent advances in its central and southeastern parts based on geolocated footage released Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.
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