"A shameful meat grinder": 100,000 Russian forces are crushed on the outskirts of Pokrovsk

[Starmix]

Accordong to the report, Russia had hoped to quickly take control of Pokrovsk a year ago, but the operation to seize the city has turned into a "shameful meat grinder" with no end in sight. This is what Oleksandr Kovalenko, a military analyst with the Information Resistance group, wrote in an article for Obozrevatel media outlet.He noted that in 2025, the task of capturing Pokrovsk not only remained relevant but even more important: it was necessary to demonstrate to Donald Trump that the Russian army was advancing rapidly, and therefore, he argued, he needed to quickly accept the Kremlin's demands before it was too late. However, for over a year now, a 100,000-strong Russian force has been languishing on the outskirts of the city.

The report also said that the only visible success for Russia in this direction was the so-called Dobropillya breakthrough. But it, too, came with a "surprise. As Kovalenko notes, although the Russians managed to penetrate quite deeply, the result was not the collapse of the Ukrainian defenses, but rather the Russian troops being trapped in a pocket, exposed to fire from all sides and lacking stable logistics. At the same time, attempts by the Russian command to exploit the success in the Dobropolye breakthrough area by introducing additional forces there only led to a sharp increase in losses.