what are the risks of losing the city and what will it mean for the Ukrainian Armed Forces

The Russian army is trying to break through to Pokrovska in Donetsk region. This city is the last large settlement before the administrative border with the Dnipropetrovsk region.

What are the risks of losing this city, said military expert Oleksiy Hetman in a commentary for “RBK.Ukraine”.

The expert notes that probably the Russian occupiers want to exit from the southeast to Pokrovsk and avoid street fighting. Invaders understand that street battles can last for months, but instead they need to advance quickly.

“Their plans are to surround the city from the north and the south. That is, to take it in a ring or semi-ring and force our garrison, which is defending there, to withdraw from this settlement. Everyone understands this, and even more so our General Staff and those staffs that are engaged in planning there hostilities,” says Hetman.

Expert Hetman believes: if the Russian Federation succeeds…