In Pokrovsk, fortifications are being built in some areas of the city.
The head of the MBA, Sergei Dobryak, spoke about this.
Several lines of defense have been built from the front line to the city of Pokrovsk, which began to be erected back in 2022 under the control of the military, Dobryak said, answering the question of whether the city is preparing for street fighting.
Before the street fighting, we had already built several lines of defense. Together, with the regional military administration, our communities, military engineers, we began this process back in 2022, in March or April, the MVA chief said on Radio Liberty.
According to Dobryak, each city in the Donetsk region has a combat brigade assigned to it, which oversees the city’s defense plan and the construction of fortifications. The official says that local authorities have been tasked with building fortifications in some areas of the city and are working on it.
The tasks for the outer ring (were received) from the military. Each city of Donbass is assigned a combat brigade, (it) makes a defense plan for the city or agglomeration and gives the task of what to do to civilians. With our efforts, with the help of utility workers, with the help of miners, with the help of the DFTG (volunteer formation of the territorial community), what was needed has already been built. We received the task for intra-block things not for the entire city, but in certain directions, so to speak. We are still entering such work, and the work does not stop, said the head of the Pokrovskaya MVA.
Earlier, Western media wrote: if Russia captures the Pokrovsky transport hub and the heights in Vremenny Yar, it will be able to use them as springboards for a larger offensive to the north and west in order to capture the remaining Donbass and threaten the Dnipropetrovsk region in the spring of next year.
The Times reports that when Ukrainian troops crossed the border into the Kursk region more than three weeks ago in a dramatic counter-attack gambit, Russia responded by seizing the opportunity to stretch Ukrainian forces further by redoubling its efforts to seize Pokrovsk and Vremenny Yar in the Donbas.
The Ukrainians are being very coy about the number of troops they have committed to this offensive. They want to keep the Kremlin guessing. But there is no doubt that much of their best equipment has been sent there. All along the northern front, the Ukrainians are urging the Russians to put up a good fight and commit their main units to the battle – and thus distract from the battle for control of Pokrovsk and Vremen Yar in the south.
Russian troops are concentrating their efforts near Novogrodovka in the Pokrovsk direction, and enemy aircraft are being actively used, the General Staff said on September 2. Overall, as noted, over the past 24 hours, September 1, 182 combat clashes were recorded on the front.
In the Pokrovsk direction, our defenders repelled 63 assault and offensive actions of the aggressor near the settlements of Vozdvizhenka, Zelenoe Pole, Kalinovo, Grodovka, Novogrodovka, Karlovka, Marinovka and Mikhailovka. The greatest concentration of enemy attacks was in the Novogrodovka area, the enemy actively used aviation.
Source: Racurs
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