FOOTAGE: HUNDREDS of Russians RETREAT RUNNING from Pokrovsk! | RFU News

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Today, there are interesting updates from the Pokrovsk direction.

Here, Ukrainian troops continued their counterattacks and launched another raid against Russian positions along the railway near Kotlyne, outflanking the Russians in a perfectly executed maneuver. With Ukrainians taking the only Russian attack route under complete fire control, the Russians' hope of taking Udachne is now potentially lost forever.

Ukrainian forces are capitalizing on their recent successes in the Pokrovsk sector, seeking to push Russian troops further away from the town. Over the past few weeks, Ukrainian counterattacks have proven highly effective, demonstrating their ability to identify and exploit weak points in Russian lines and execute precise and well-organized operations to accomplish this. Ukrainians are now seizing the opportunity to launch another offensive maneuver southwest of Pokrovsk, targeting Russian positions near Udachne to disrupt enemy advances and secure critical defensive terrain.

The Ukrainian defense in Udachne is well-connected to the central Ukrainian supply lines, with a side road leading to the Pokrovsk-Dnipro highway and a direct supply route to Mezhova, a larger settlement that facilitates rapid troop rotation and resupply. Unlike the Russians, who struggle to transport reinforcements due to Ukrainian drone threats, Ukrainians can quickly move troops and supplies, reinforcing their positions with minimal delay.

Russian forces in the Pokrovsk area face serious challenges: a lack of manpower, overstretched supply lines, and difficulties maintaining fortified positions. Their inability to consolidate their gains has left them vulnerable to the Ukrainian counterattacks we have seen increasingly intensifying. Reports indicate that Russian units can often only deploy one or two soldiers at a time to seize or reinforce positions, a sign not only of extreme resource strain but also of overwhelming Ukrainian drone superiority at Pokrovsk. Due to the high aerial threat from Ukrainian drones, Russian troops cannot use armored vehicles close to the contact line and sometimes must walk up to 10 kilometers on foot to reach their positions, further exhausting them before they even engage in combat.

Meanwhile, Ukraine has demonstrated its ability to mount effective counterattacks by integrating drone and artillery support with ground operations, a combination that has led to devastating Russian losses. The superior coordination of these systems is making Russian advances increasingly costly, as every movement is closely monitored and targeted with precision strikes. Despite attempts to use frozen terrain to deploy heavy equipment, Russian forces are struggling to consolidate gains, and analysts note that Ukrainian electronic warfare systems are now starting to interfere with Russian glide bomb navigation, limiting the strongest Russian implementation for their air support.

Ukrainians identified a key weak spot in the Russian defenses: a trench network within a tree line south of Udachne, which extended toward the railway and had been used by Russian forces to launch their assaults from and guard their ground lines of communication. Geolocated footage from a surveillance drone shows how Ukrainians monitored the position, allowing them to detect and target the precise dugouts Russians were in with FPV drones. Hereafter, Ukrainian soldiers in white winter camouflage carefully cleared the trenches with grenades and small arms fire. As Ukrainians then quickly reinforced the area and started projecting their own fire control, Russian soldiers realized they had been outflanked and withdrew from the railway line en masse.

By targeting and recapturing these trenches, Ukrainian forces have removed a critical launching point for Russian attacks and positioned themselves to deny further Russian movement in this direction. The well-prepared defensive structures now serve as Ukrainian strongholds and give them fire control over Russian attack routes into Udachne, making it nearly impossible for enemy forces to reestablish a foothold in the area. With Ukrainians maintaining strong fire control over the Russian approaches with drones, they can still only muster small infantry assault groups, making it unlikely that Russians will be able to retake this stronghold any time soon.

Overall, with Russian forces pressured to withdraw from the railway, Ukrainians now have a good opportunity to clear out more enemy positions on the western flank of Pokrovsk. By continuing to exploit Russian weaknesses, Ukrainian forces could push their lines even further, ensuring that Russian assaults on Pokrovsk become increasingly difficult.

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