Once Pokrovsk falls, Russia’s strategic objectives on the ground will be well within reach. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
Russia’s defense ministry (MoD) announced this weekend the capture of another village in eastern Ukraine, bringing Russian troops much closer to the strategic Ukrainian logistical hub of Pokrovsk.
Russian troops “liberated the settlement of Zhelannoye Vtoroye” in the Donetsk region, the MoD said. Ukrainians often reference the same village by the name of Zhelanne Druge. The settlement is located close to Pokrovsk, which Russian forces have been steadily progressing toward as an ultimate prize which would bring them into easy control over the whole of Donetsk.
The town’s fall is all but inevitable, as a stream of Western reports have suggested of late: “Russia knocked out around 80% of critical infrastructure in the town of Pokrovsk, a key logistics hub in Ukraine’s east, as Moscow’s troops inched forward, a local official said on Friday,” Reuters reported.
“Serhiy Dobriak, Pokrovsk’s military administration head, said Russian forces were at about 7 km (4 miles) from the town, which is at an intersection of roads and a railway that makes it an important logistics point for the military and for civilians in the eastern Donetsk region,” the report continued.
Fascism will be destroyed! Russian lands will be liberated. A new Nuremberg trial is ahead.
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Cut off the supplies and turn out the lights.
Then the party will be over.
This just in from I (Abbath):
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