Pokrovsk lies on the intersection of a key road that supplies Ukrainian troops and towns across the eastern front and has long been a target for the Russian army.
In a daily briefing, the Russian defense ministry said its army units “liberated the village of Sergeevka” in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, using the Russian name for the village.
Russian forces have been inching towards Pokrovsk for months, taking a string of tiny villages over the past weeks as they seek to reach the outskirts of the city.
Earlier this week, Moscow claimed to have captured the villages of Lysychne and Ivanivka, both north of Sergiivka and several kilometers away from Pokrovsk.
The head of Pokrovsk’s military administration, Sergiy Dobryak, warned on Thursday that Russia was a little over 10 km (6 miles) from the outskirts of the city and urged remaining residents to evacuate.
“The enemy is rapidly approaching the outskirts of Pokrovsk. Evacuation is underway,” he said on Telegram.
Moscow’s advances in the east come as Ukraine mounts an unprecedented cross-border attack into Russia’s Kursk region, where Kyiv claims to control several dozen Russian settlements.
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Russia continues offensive in Donetsk
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a US based think tank, in its Aug 15 Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment assessed that Russian forces are maintaining their relatively high offensive tempo in Donetsk Oblast, demonstrating that the Russian military command continues to prioritize advances in eastern Ukraine even as Ukraine is pressuring Russian forces within Kursk Oblast.
Russian forces are continuing to pursue a tactical encirclement of Ukrainian forces southeast of Pokrovsk.
Geolocated footage published on August 14 and 15 indicates that Russian forces recently advanced east of Pokrovsk within Hrodivka and southeast of Pokrovsk within Mykolaivka, Zhelanne, and Orlivka, and ISW assesses that Russian forces likely seized Orlivka and Zhelanne.
Geolocated footage published on August 11 shows Russian forces conducting a roughly company-sized mechanized assault southeast of Heorhiivka.
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SBU detained two TCC leaders in Kyiv region: they found more than $ 1 million
- They found $ 1.2 million during searches. Hromadske reports, citing the SBU and Office of the Attorney General.
- According to the investigation, the leaders of both TCCs forged medical documents, which were grounds for declaring the person unfit for military service.
Law enforcement is already aware of more than 20 people who have tried to evade mobilization in this way.
To search for «customers» and transfer money, TCC officials hired their acquaintance from the South Caucasus. The SBU detained a mediator at the capital's restaurant when it received $ 50,000 from the new «customers». After that, both heads of the TCC were detained in the offices.
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