Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief: Pokrovsk is neither occupied nor encircled
Streets of Pokrovsk, Sept. 25, 2025 (Photo: Iryna Rybakova/Press Service of the 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade/Handout via REUTERS)
The Pokrovsk sector remains the main axis of Russia’s offensive, with intense fighting continuing both on the outskirts and within the city itself, Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi reported on Telegram on Nov. 13 after visiting the frontline.
Pokrovsk is not occupied and Ukrainian forces are not encircled.
The city sees the highest number of Russian assaults, with the enemy concentrating a large portion of its combat power in the area and trying to exploit poor weather conditions.
"Our main tasks remain the gradual takeover of control of certain areas, supporting and protecting existing logistics routes, and organizing additional ones to ensure the timely supply of our defenders and the uninterrupted evacuation of the wounded," Syrskyi said.
The commander added that Ukrainian troops continue to engage and destroy small Russian assault groups and light vehicles operating in and around the city, preventing the occupiers from gaining a foothold.
In the adjacent Ocheretyne sector, Ukrainian forces continue search-and-elimination operations.
“Over the past seven days, as a result of these operations, 7.4 square kilometers of territory in the Pokrovsk district of Donetsk Oblast have been cleared of enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups.”
According to the General Staff, Ukrainian forces repelled 81 Russian attacks in the Pokrovsk sector over the past 24 hours, near the settlements of Shakhove, Mayak, Novoekonomichne, Nove Shakhove, Rodynske, Chervonyi Lyman, Myrnohrad, Novohrodivka, Zelene, Kotlyne, Udachne, Molodetske, Novomykolaivka, Filia, Dachne, and toward Novopavlivka.
In total, 226 combat clashes were recorded across the front during the past day.
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