Russian war bloggers have released a video showing soldiers riding motorcycles, in a car with the doors removed, in the back of a van or on foot in the fog. According to the BBC, it was filmed in the southern suburb of Pokrovskoye on the highway leading from the town of Selydove.
Like ghosts in the fog. The Russians enter Pokrovskoye
Reuters reported that Russian forces entered the city in a Mad Max-style manner."According to some Telegram users, the video looked like scenes from the 1979 action film 'Mad Max,' which is set in a post-apocalyptic landscape," Reuters reported.
For several days, fog has reduced visibility to such an extent that it has been impossible to conduct aerial reconnaissance, said a Ukrainian drone operator nicknamed Hus. According to him, the Russians also"dared" to use a convoy of cars in the attack, which under normal conditions would have been immediately destroyed by Ukrainian drones. According to Hus, most of the city is now in a so-called gray zone, which is not fully controlled by either side."We can hold positions in one building, but the enemy can be in the next one. They are trying to get behind us," he described the situation.
The Ukrainian military said on Tuesday that there are about 300 Russian soldiers in the besieged eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, Reuters reports. The Russian army has been trying to capture this strategically important city in the Donetsk region for more than a year. In late October, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted that fighting was taking place directly in the city. Fog is helping the Russians advance.
"Their goal remains unchanged - to reach the northern borders of Pokrovskoye and then try to encircle the agglomeration," the 7th Ukrainian Airborne Corps said on Facebook.
Zelensky admitted that the most attention now needs to be paid to the area around Pokrovskoye and the Zaporozhye region, where the Russians are increasing the number and scope of attacks."The situation there is complicated mainly because of the weather, which is conducive to attacks," he said. The situation in Kupyansk, he said, is somewhat easier, and Ukrainian soldiers have been achieving results there for several weeks.
Ukrainian army units have withdrawn from five villages in the Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraine after intense fighting with Russian forces, the DPA agency reported on Tuesday, citing a statement from the Ukrainian army's general staff. The order to withdraw from the villages of Novouspenivske, Nove, Okhotnych, Uspenivka and Novomykolajivka in the Zaporizhzhia region was issued after"the virtual destruction of all shelters and fortifications" following intense artillery fire from Russian positions.
DPA added that military observers also reported a Russian breakthrough on this section of the front and the Russian army announced the capture of several locations.
