There are still 7,300 residents remaining in Pokrovsk. The pace of evacuation has slowed due to the worsening security situation.
Points of attention
- Over 7,300 residents are still residing in Pokrovsk amidst the worsening security situation and active shelling by occupiers.
- The pace of evacuation has slowed down significantly, with only 5 to 10 people leaving per day, following disruptions in gas and electricity supply in early December.
- The occupiers have intensified activities in the Pokrovsk direction, posing challenges for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in dislodging them from the city.
- The escalating conflict has led to deliberate shelling of civilian infrastructure and utility workers, highlighting the dire circumstances faced by the residents.
- The battle for control of Pokrovsk remains intense, with Russia concentrating a significant number of troops in the area, making it one of the most challenging sections of the front.
Evacuation from Pokrovsk slowed down
This was reported by the head of the Pokrovskaya City Military Administration, Serhiy Dobryak.
The security situation here is deteriorating, because they have been constantly firing artillery in recent weeks, weather-based KABs, and FPV drones constantly — it's just torture.
He noted that 7,300 civilians currently live in Pokrovsk.
Now the evacuation has decreased a bit, after December 12, when the gas supply was cut off, and then the electricity supply, then almost 3,000 people left in a week. Today, if we take statistics, from 5 to 10 people leave per day.
According to him, Russian troops have been deliberately shelling municipal equipment for the past seven weeks.
They deliberately "hunted" those small 5-ton trucks that delivered food to stores, bread machines. Cynical. We understand that the operator of the FPV drone sees where he is flying and who he is hitting. By the way, our utility worker from the heating network also died from an FPV drone — he was driving to work. These cases are not isolated, these are terrible statistics about the hunting of FPV drones on our people. There is a small area, 15%, where they have not yet reached, but it is a matter of time.
He added that currently there are only a few shops left in the city, a few pharmacies, and several specialists from the territorial center are working to persuade the elderly to leave the community. Municipal workers are taking out the garbage, and a funeral service is also operating.
In some areas of the city, utility workers are preserving buildings where possible, but mostly they work in settlements where the security situation allows it. District heating workers independently built two boiler houses that heat hospitals.
Battles for Pokrovsk
For the past few months, the occupiers have been trying to break through the defenses in the Pokrovsky direction. This area is one of the most difficult sections of the front.
As previously reported by the "Khortytsia" military district, Russia has 150,000 soldiers in the Pokrovskoye, Kurakhivskoye, and Vremivskoye directions. In particular, in the Pokrovskoye area, the occupiers have concentrated about 70,000 soldiers.
According to Viktor Tregubov, spokesman for the Khortytsia Military District, the Russians are trying to weaken Ukrainian logistics in Pokrovsk, but it is currently unlikely that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be able to dislodge them from the city. The enemy may try to force the Ukrainian troops to withdraw their forces from Pokrovsk, but this looks like a difficult task.
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