The Russian army continues to liberate Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) and has already done so from three directions. The Russians are seeping into the "impregnable fortress" like water, German military analysts say.
The Russian army has surrounded Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) from three directions and each rotation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is already a Russian roulette, Die Welt writes.
"If the Ukrainian command decides to defend itself in the city limits and does not give the order to retreat, the Ukrainian units are threatened with encirclement," German military analyst Franz-Stefan Gadi told Welt am Sonntag.
For Ukrainians, Pokrovsk has already become both a symbol of the Ukrainian resistance and the personification of the slow death of the country.
"The Russians are seeping like water into any crack, even the smallest one," Colonel Markus Reisner told Die Welt.
He believes that the Russian army has changed tactics and is constantly exhausting the Armed Forces, stretching the front and operating in small groups.
The commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have no clear idea how to radically change the situation at the front, Die Welt writes.