Like a horror movie”: new war phase begins near Pokrovsk, much harder and scarier

[Starmix]

According to the report, Pokrovsk has become a symbol of a new war phase in which Russians have lost at least 12,000, possibly 14,000, killed alone. The Ukrainian Defense Forces have received reinforcements and are holding back the pressure of Russian troops in the area of the Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad agglomeration. But some experts warn that Ukrainian troops could end up in a pocket, or at least blocked in the nearby city of Myrnohrad.

The report added that this gray zone creeps forward bit by bit, within which they try to creep in, and we try to hold on. It is a war that looks like huge expanses of terrifying territory, really like a horror movie, like some sci-fi where you just cannot survive unless you are hiding in burrows. And when both sides hide in burrows and crawl out to kill each other, mostly with FPV drones.

Additionally, it is no longer the situation where you can easily say on a map who is encircling whom, even that gets lost. And this is definitely not the war of big breakthroughs, when a front collapses somewhere, and mechanized columns race off to cut off chunks of territory. No, it looks completely different now.

 

[wisdom01]

That report paints a truly sobering and complex picture of the front. The staggering Russian losses at Pokrovsk are significant, yet the tactical warning about a potential Ukrainian pocket is a cold, hard dose of strategic reality. This phase is brutal and remains critically fluid.