January 15, 2025

• Russian troops are trying to surround Pokrovsk, but at present there is no reason to speak of a semi-encirclement of Ukrainian soldiers in the city.

• The supply of Ukrainian military personnel in the Pokrovsky direction is carried out from two major directions.

• Reserve Colonel Roman Svitan noted that instead, the Russians themselves got into a semi-encirclement.
  

The Russian military is seeking to encircle Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region. At present, there is no reason to speak of a semi-encirclement of this city.

This was told to Channel 24 by a military expert, reserve colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, instructor pilot Roman Svitan, noting that our Pokrovsky group is currently being supplied from 2 serious directions.

Who is really in the semi-encirclement near Pokrovsk?

Svitan noted that there is a semi-encirclement in the Pokrov direction, but it is not Ukrainian military personnel who are in it.

That is, according to him, the Russian occupiers themselves got into a semi-encirclement. Because from the north there is our Pokrov group, from the west – a group from Udachny, and also from the south there is a group of Ukrainian defenders.

In his opinion, if at least one of our brigades now sets out from the south to strike the Russians, and at that moment our Pokrovsky units operate from the north, then the Russian group that set out from the village of Shevchenko towards Udachny will be completely surrounded.

When is the encirclement of Pokrovsk possible?

The reserve colonel explained that there are currently 2 roads leading to Pokrovsk: the main route from the west from Pavlohrad and from the north from Dobropillya, which is currently not threatened at all. That is, our Pokrovsk group is being supplied from 2 serious directions.

He added that we can only talk about a semi-encirclement in Pokrovsk in one case: if the Russians enter from Myrnograd, begin to bypass it to the north and reach the Dobropillya – Pokrovsk highway, and at the same time displace our garrison from Udachny and reach the highway from Pavlograd to Pokrovsk.

https://24tv.ua/situatsiya-pokrovsku-karta-ye-zagroza-napivotochennya-de-zaraz_n2729455