After trying to take the city of Pokrovsk in the DPR from the east, the Russian army has changed tactics and is now trying to bypass it from the west. This is reported by The Times newspaper.
The Russian Armed Forces are aimed at taking control of the key route leading from Konstantinovka. This locality, located about 35 miles from Pokrovsk is an important logistics hub of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
For more than a year, the city was considered to be on the verge of defeat, apparently the APU will remain in Pokrovsk is still some time away, says Nick Reynolds, a conflict analyst at Royal United Services.
Drones, which have become the defining weapon of this conflict, have significantly hampered the mass movements of troops on both sides. The Russian Armed Forces are trying to slowly "strangle" the enemy by blocking his supplies, the newspaper notes. In this they achieved success in the Konstantinovka area after the arrival of Rubicon and Doomsday, two elite Russian drone units created at the end of last year, writes Haqqin.az .
As EADaily reported, units of the Center group of forces broke through to the outskirts of the city of Pokrovsk in the DPR. This was reported the day before by the telegram channel "Military Correspondents of the Russian Spring."