Russia collects 1,10,000 troops around the 'hottest place' of Eastern Cupraine - Why is the site important? All we know | Today news

Russia Akraine War: With Russia and Ukraine still together, the former has now collected 1,10,000 troops in the vicinity of Pokrovsk as part of its efforts to take over the strategic Oriental Ukrainian city, Ukrainian military head said. Moscow sees Pokrovsk as a strategic target, as Russian President Vladimir Putin has made it clear that his goal is to seize all the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk who partially occupied his powers, CNN reports. While talking about the development, Ukraine military head Oleksandr Syrskyi further said that the area around Pokrovsk was the ‘hottest place’ along the 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) front line running over the east of Ukraine. Why is Pokrovsk important, while Pokrovsk is not an important city, the ‘strategic terrain’ is located on a key supply and railroad connecting it with other military hubs in the area. Along with Kostiantyynivka, Kramatorsk and Slovian, Pokrovsk forms the backbone of the Ukrainian defense in the part of the Donetsk region that is still under Kyiv’s control. In addition, the Ukraine’s last operational coal mine in Pokrovsk was with a majority of its employees who stayed in the area to keep it going. After it was forced to close early this year, people started leaving. When Russia was forced to abandon its plan to take over Pokrovsk, the Institute for the War Study (ISW), an American conflict monitor, said late last year that Ukrainian defense operations in Pokrovsk Russia forced to drop its original plan to take Pokrovsk in a frontal assault. About 60,000 lived in Pokrovsk before the war, but the majority has departed in the three years since Russia launched its full scale in February 2022, CNN reports. The Russian-Ukrainian war Russian drones hit the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa overnight and killed two people and at least 17 injured, the Ukrainian authorities said on Saturday. Meanwhile, three attack helicopters and a rocket rack system were destroyed in the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, news agencies reports. Ukraine’s security service agency has deployed special drones to attack the Kirovske Military Airfield, a Ukrainian security officer said on Saturday.