Russian troops have conquered all of Pokrovsk city south of the railway line an…

The first Russian DRGs have reached the town of Gryshino to the northwest.

The Russian troops at Pokrovsk’s outskirts are less than a kilometer (<0.8 miles) from closing the pocket and trapping somewhere between 500 to 3000 Ukrainian troops.

Zelensky and Syrsky could have made a gradual withdrawal in September from the cities and save the lives of their soldiers but they didn’t want Western newspapers reporting on the fall of Pokrovsk and Myrnograd which would have lowered faith from Western investors.

Even with the catastrophic shortages of manpower, Zelensky and Syrsky still treat their men as expendable and sabotage any and all initiatives of peace negotiations.

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