Pokrovsk: The Frontline Town That Could Change the Russia-Ukraine War

For the past month, Kyiv’s surprise cross-border incursion into Russia’s western Kursk region has dominated news headlines. Simultaneously, however, Russian forces have accelerated their advance in the east, recently capturing several villages in Donetsk (which, along with Luhansk, comprises the Donbas region). Russian forces now appear poised to capture the strategic town of Pokrovsk, a key Ukrainian logistics hub often described in the Russian media as the “gateway to Donetsk.” “Its strategic importance lies in the fact that it is the most important procurement and transportation hub for Ukrainian forces in Donbas,” Ferit Temur, a Turkish political analyst, told The Epoch Times....