Key City: The Russian Federation prevents the Armed Forces to prepare for a counter -offensive and wants to capture Pokrovsk - CNN

According to journalists, Ukraine and Western allies are concerned about the promotion of the invaders in the Donbass. This also threatens to other settlements in the region, which are responsible for the supply of defense forces. The Russians continue to press on Ukrainian positions in the Donbass and can now move to the key city in the east of the country. This is stated in CNN.

Journalists point out that the city of Pokrovsk, the loss of which can jeopardize the entire strategic line of supply of defense forces. The Armed Forces worked on this issue for months and stretched the Ukrainian military all over the front line, trying to seize as much lands as possible before the supply of Western weapons and increased mobilization will give effect.

Initially, the achievements of the enemy could be gradual, after which the Russian invaders allegedly began the movement to the Pokrovsk Donetsk region. It was concerned about both Ukraine and Western allies, and journalists continue. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky himself in one of his appeals stated that the situation in this direction is really difficult and the Armed Forces fighters are forced to deal with such realities every day.

"It is in the Pokrovsky direction for these weeks that the most Russian assaults are the greatest attacks of the enemy, and everyone who stops these Russian strikes and destroys this Russian offensive potential, fulfills one of the most important tasks in this war," said Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

But at the American Institute of War Study (ISW) it was written before that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were just 20 km from Pokrovsk and continue to take intensive actions to capture the city. It is a small city of Donbass, in which about 60,000 people lived before the fighting, is now a key knot for the Ukrainian military thanks to its easy access to another city - Konstantinovka. This is another military center of the Ukrainian side.

Konstantinovka is the southernmost part of the four Ukrainian cities-Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk and Slavyansk-which form the island of Ukraine's defense in the region, so any promotion of Russian troops towards Konstantinovka is concerned. CNN summarized that if the plans of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for the capture of Pokrovsk are implemented, then the consequences can be waiting for Ukraine.

The occupiers are now forcing the defense forces to spend all efforts on a defensive operation, not preparation for a counter -offensive. We will remind, on July 30 it was reported that the Russian Federation reduced the number of storms near Pokrovsk and the officer told about changes on the front. The Russian military is insidious and always looking for weaknesses to concentrate their forces.