Ukraine’s Forces maintain control over central Pokrovsk and are conducting targeted search-and-strike operations against Russian units that have been unsuccessfully trying to push into the city.
Intense small-arms clashes continue downtown, but Russian troops have failed to secure positions in any sector, the 7th Corps of Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces said.
Ukrainian units cleared the area around the railway station, the Pokrovsk Pedagogical College and Sobornyi Square - key locations Russian forces sought to use for regrouping and staging reserves, according to the statement.
“To eliminate the enemy in the city center, assault groups continue to be deployed in coordination with other units in the area of responsibility of the 7th Rapid Response Corps of the Air Assault Forces. In particular, in recent days, the 425th Separate Assault Regiment ‘Skala’ carried out a clearance of enemy presence around the railway station, the Pokrovsk Pedagogical College and Sobornyi Square,” the military said.
Ukrainian defenders added that attempts by Russian forces to increase pressure on the northern part of the city have been effectively blocked. Any effort to cross the railway line to advance north has resulted in significant personnel and equipment losses for Russian troops.
On the southern outskirts, Russian forces tried to covertly move a tank and prepare it for future assaults, but Ukrainian operators detected the vehicle and destroyed it with a strike drone before it could enter combat.
“Since the beginning of November, Ukrainian forces have eliminated 388 Russian troops in Pokrovsk, with another 87 wounded,” the statement said.
According to Ukraine’s General Staff, there were 40 combat engagements in the Pokrovsk direction over the past 24 hours near the settlements of Rodynske, Chervonyi Lyman, Novoekonomichne, Myrnohrad, Nikanorivka, Kotlyne, Udachne, Novopodhorodne, Pokrovsk, Rivne, Zverive, Novopavlivka, Molodetske, Dachne and Fylia.
Earlier, the 7th Corps of Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces said Ukrainian Forces control Pokrovsk’s northern lines as well as strategic positions south of the railway - a development it called crucial for the city’s further de-occupation.
