Russian Troops Infiltrated Pokrovsk—But Not for Long
Ukrainian forces destroyed the Russian sabotage group
For more than a year since capturing the ruins of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, the 600,000-strong Russian army of occupation in Ukraine has had its sights set on one main objective: Pokrovsk, a city in Donetsk with a pre-war population of 60,000 that anchors a chain of important towns and cities stretching north toward the border with Russia.
On Tuesday, a Russian reconnaissance and sabotage group managed to cross the no-man’s-land south of Pokrovsk and take shelter in a building on the city’s edge. They likely weren’t there long before a Ukrainian drone operated by the 155th Mechanized Brigade spotted them—and the brigade destroyed the building in a precise strike.