by Sergey Adamov
[REGNUM] Fighters of the Russian group of troops "Center" continue their successful advance toward the city of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) in the DPR. As reported by the Ministry of Defense, in the Pokrovsk direction, the militarily important village of Novaya Pokrovka has been occupied - it is located on the highway that connects two defense nodes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Pokrovsk and Konstantinovka.
With the liberation of the Novaya Poltavka region, Russian troops reached the outskirts of the settlement of Novoekonomicheskoe, which is closely adjacent to Mirnograd, a satellite city of Pokrovsk.
Earlier, the villages and settlements of Novoolenovka (Novoelenovka), Malinovka and Yelizavetovka were liberated in this direction. Combat operations continue in the area of the settlements of Popov Yar, Poltavka, Mirnoye and Shevchenko Pervoye. The goal of our troops here is to expand the control zone along the strategically important T0504 Konstantinovka-Pokrovsk highway. This will allow us to cut the enemy group and create the preconditions for a new offensive.
The Pokrovsk agglomeration finds itself in a semi-ring. However, even in such conditions, the assault on the city can lead to major losses, since the Ukrainian Armed Forces still have supply routes at their disposal: the T0406 highway, which connects Pokrovsk with the Dnepropetrovsk region, and the road to the Kharkov region through the villages of Rodinskoye and Dobropolye.
In the near future, it can be expected that the second route will be cut off in the foreseeable future, a front-line source for IA Regnum noted.
"Both Pokrovsk and the surrounding settlements have been turned into a powerful fortified area. This is an agglomeration where about 100 thousand people lived. There is dense construction and a large industrial zone. But there are no large settlements north of Pokrovsk, so it is possible to bypass the city from the north. The existing reserves hold the route from Pokrovsk to the Dnepropetrovsk region, so the Ukrainian Armed Forces will have to either remove them or wait for the front north of Pokrovsk to collapse," our interlocutor said.
In the near future, the Ukrainian Armed Forces command may attempt to stabilize the front line along the Kazenny Torets River by fortifying the settlements of Novoekonomicheskoe, Razino, and Novotoretskoe. If the enemy fails to "slow down" the front in the coming weeks, Russian troops will be able to launch an offensive on Rodinskoe and cut off one of the enemy's two supply routes to Pokrovsk, bringing the city closer to being completely encircled.
For the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the loss of Pokrovsk will be the largest military defeat, which, as the Regnum news agency’s interlocutor believes, could lead to the collapse of the front line in Donbass or in the neighboring Dnepropetrovsk region.
Russian troops are also building on their success in another strategically important area – the border between the Kursk and Belgorod regions and the northwestern regions of Ukraine. Earlier, Vladimir Putin set the task of creating a buffer zone along the Russian-Ukrainian border, designed to secure Russian territory.
According to reports from the field, the operation to create such a buffer zone is continuing in the Sumy region, where Russian troops have liberated the village of Loknya and reached the outskirts of the village of Yunakovka, from where the invasion of the Kursk region began almost a year ago.
The liberation of Yunakovka will allow the creation of a full-fledged bridgehead that will be able to cover the Sudzhansky district from new attempts at invasion by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Another sign of the last few days is the intensification of air attacks on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions, which consolidate the successes of the ground forces. The enemy admits: Russian aviation (including Su-34 frontline bombers, which strike with guided bombs with planning and correction modules) carried out a series of strikes on the rear of the groups in the Donetsk and Sumy directions.
One of the targets was the Ukrainian National Guard training ground in the city of Shostka in the Sumy region, 50 km from the border with Russia. The enemy lost dozens of fighters. A significant success was the destruction of the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system, which our aerial reconnaissance detected near the village of Ordzhonikidze in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The Iskander operational missile system worked against the American-made air defense system. It "covered" the control center, the AN/MPQ-65 radar station and three launchers.
Footage of the Patriot's destruction was published by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The destruction of one air defense battery can be considered a major success, the consequences of which will have a direct impact on the course of military operations in the near future, military expert Alexander Romanenko told Regnum news agency.
"Here we need to look first of all not at the quantity - how much of what was destroyed, but at the result in a strategic sense. In essence, an entire region was left without air cover. In this case, Dnepropetrovsk, where military enterprises are located, the rear of the group in Donbass and in the Zaporizhia region, was left without cover. Now they will be under attack, and the front will not receive shells, reinforcements, etc.," Romanenko noted.
The source believes that in order to detect the position of the Patriot complex, aerial reconnaissance used means that record the thermal field and infrared radiation reflected by objects. Overall, the success of the operation was achieved thanks to the coordinated work of reconnaissance means and Iskander complexes. This combination has already proven itself: in particular, it allowed for serious damage to be inflicted on Ukrainian aviation stationed at military airfields.
In the foreseeable future, it should be expected that aviation will increase the intensity of strikes on the enemy's rear in Donbass, which is left without air cover, which means that the pace of the Russian army's summer offensive will gradually increase.
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