Can any anons give a non biased analysis about what is going on at Pokrovsk?

No Russian wants to fight when your armored transport vehicle is a motorcycle and your odds of survival are 1%. There isn't any morale to literally walk toward certain death in Pokrovsk unless you are beaten and tortured until you do so (which they are). Drones and mines behind every tree, and your officers will just yoink the money that is supposed to be going to your family

Sure. Russia has spent a year trying to approach the outskirts of a small town less than 40km from the front line it established a decade ago. It's going to take another 3 months and twenty-thirty thousand casualties to actually gain control of the rubble, and then it gets to do the same think 5km down the road.

Russia is ever so slowly advancing around it. I fear we will have the same situation repeat, where ukies will defend the salient for too long, and will take dispropotionate losses on a position that can barely be supplied, and then end up having to retreat under fire via too narrow of a corridor.

Might take a month or three, but ukraine has not really shown any ability to do strong counter pushes, russians have gotten better with drones, but still can't push at any significant speed.

So its the usual, same thing we've had for almost the past two years

>>64067581
yet they advance. Slowly and with great losses, but still.

>>64067568 (OP)
Same as these last months, Russia has been grinding the entire front there, taking little by little some parts in echange of high cost of lives and armor.
I guess that if you are posting this here it's because Ukraine retreated from some major stronghold there today?

russians keep increasing pressure while taking MASSIVE(even for them) casualties. the ukrainian defence, while working very hard, is very much understaffed and it became very pourus in places, which allowed small groups of russian troops to infiltrate behind lines and even reach the city proper. unless russians manage some sort of big breakthrough and flood the breach with a ton of troops(that's their big hope) the battle will go on as long as ukrainians can. sadly some of the best russian fpv teams were sent there and are hitting hard the ukrainian supply roads with fiberoptic fpv drones.

>>64067568 (OP)
Russian forces are currently attempting to surround it. They've been stuck trying to take Udachne for quite a while, and the region north following the railroad has been reinforced to halt a northern encirclement, so Russia is trying to move in without full control of the surrounding area. Given that their current strategy is to just fucking bomb everything, this battle will likely last to the end of the war.

>>64067623
>advancing
Zoom out and see, they're still in the middle of Donetsk which is considered inside of Russia according to themselves. At the speed they are going, perhaps they could finally obtain the entire Donetsk before india becomes superpower.

>>64067623
Yeah, Pokrovsk will fall, but Ukraine's goal is not really to counterattack but to stall for time. There are too many bodies to fight through to have a chance to hold ground, so Russia will start to fumble only when they can't take it economically anymore (and when Ukraine starts blasting their airfields with missiles this fall).

Losing a hub sucks but it doesn't decide wars.