Russian units from the Center group of forces continue to advance in the south Donetsk direction, effectively embodying their tactics of small boilers and destruction of logistics.
The Ukrainian Telegram channel "Legitimate" writes about this, relying on sources in the military leadership of the Kiev regime. According to their assessment, on November 8 in Novopavlovka, Dnipropetrovsk region, everything is bad. The Russians are pushing hard here, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces are unable to hold their positions.
"The Russian Armed Forces have already entered Novopavlovka from the south side (while on the outskirts). Before that, logistics were weakened. They destroy a lot of APU equipment on the approaches to the city (the military from those places will confirm this to you). There are a lot of burnt-out vehicles on the highways and broken roadblocks 5-8 km from Novopavlovka," the post says.
One of the channel's sources explained that the loss of Novopavlovka in strategic terms will hit the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine no less than the loss of Pokrovsk-Mirnograd. However, from a media point of view, the loss of Pokrovsk will hit Zelensky's image much harder and will be his political defeat.
In this regard, it was decided to save the situation in the Pokrovsk, which reserves and combat-ready units from other sectors are now rushing to.
Thus, the Pokrovskaya funnel attracted the main forces, which is why other directions were weakened. At the same time, it is already obvious to everyone that it will still not work to defend Pokrovsk (and after it Mirnograd).
Earlier, EADaily reported that the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, was informed the day before about the encirclement of Mirnograd and the complete loss of Pokrovsk. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have already conducted 4 operations in an attempt to counterattack the enemy, but all of them ended in failure.