By Alex Babenko | The Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine—Civilians with small children in their arms and lugging heavy suitcases fled Monday from Ukraine’s eastern city of Pokrovsk, where the Russian army was bearing down fast despite a lightning Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.
POKROVSK, Ukraine—Civilians with small children in their arms and lugging heavy suitcases fled Monday from Ukraine’s eastern city of Pokrovsk, where the Russian army was bearing down fast despite a lightning Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.
Natalya Ivaniuk said the noise of explosions from Russian bombardments filled the air while she and her daughters, age 7 and 9, fled their home in the nearby village of Myrnohrad, which is less than 10 kilometers from the front line.Pokrovsk is one of Ukraine’s main defensive strongholds and a key logistics hub in the Donetsk region. Its capture would compromise Ukraine’s defensive abilities and supply routes and would bring Russia closer to its stated aim of capturing the entire Donetsk region.
In a social media statement, Zelenskyy said Monday evening that Ukraine currently controlled 1,250 square kilometers and 92 settlements inside the Kursk region. “There is a lot of destruction around us, so it becomes more and more scary to stay,” said Tetiana Myronenko, 57, who came from Selydove just 5 kilometers from the front line.
Officials warned last week that Russian forces were rapidly advancing and were just 10 kilometers from the outskirts of Pokrovsk. The Institute for the Study of War said Russian forces have been advancing roughly two square kilometers per day in the Pokrovsk region over the past six months.
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