Interesting thoughts from Ukrainian soldiers serving in the ongoing battle for Pokrovsk.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pokrovsk-defenders-drones-alone-cant-hold-embattled-ukrainian-city-2025-11-05/

>"I'm telling you, five men are on the way, but only one makes it. He reaches the city, goes inside a building and waits for someone else to join him," Lambada said of the Russian troops.
>He added that the majority of them were killed as they tried to advance into Pokrovsk.

It rhymes with what we see elsewhere of Ukraine's forces in Pokrovsk effectively demanding that Russians mount a large armoured assault - Bakhmut style - on the town with hundreds of vehicles in order for the AFU to be dislodged. The current zigger tactic of infiltration is slowly netting them some buildings in some streets but it's unlikely to lead to the occupation of the town any time soon.