Michael Peterson -REFUTATION & SHORT ANALYSIS: POKROVSK IS VERY IMPORTANT, JULY 27 2025I shouldn't lower myself to answer this totally unintelligent post, but since I've already wanted to write about Pokrovsk I'll do that. Just by claiming that Pokrovsk is a hamlet shows that @astraiaintel either has no knowledge or is outright lying. The Pokrovsk Myrnograd urban agglomeration had around 115 000 inhabitants and is the biggest city Russia will take since 2022. It's about 1,5 times larger than Bakhmut.In general terms Pokrovsk is also a logistical hub since most major roads in southeast Ukraine go through the town. Once it supplied most of the war material that went to the Ukrainian Eastern front (around Kramatorsk) and the Southeastern front. Now when the area is semi encircled it's no longer an active supply hub, but in the future it will be an important Russian logistical hub.But it's not because it's an important logistical hub that makes Pokrovsk very important presently. Russia has spent the last two years methodically eliminating the entire Ukrainian Southeastern front. It has been a grinding process with RuAF fighting through 50 km of Ukrainian defence lines and fortifications. The only thing that remains is to take the main fortification, i.e. Pokrovsk. When this is done the entire Ukrainian Southeastern front will be obliterated and the way forward will be much easier for the RuAF.This is not all. With the fall of Pokrovsk and the Southeastern front the gap in the Ukrainian defences will be very big and it will be easy to bypass the entire Ukrainian South front with its two strong defence lines. It will also be possible to attack northwards behind the Ukrainian Eastern front, situated around Kramatorsk, and semi encircle that frontline to. You could say that with the imminent fall of one city (Pokrovsk) Russia gets two or three of Ukraine's four fronts in Eastern Ukraine. That's a very good deal for Russia and a disaster for the Ukrainian defences east of the Dniepr.