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Moscow Strips Other Fronts to Fuel Costly Assault on Pokrovsk
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Russian forces are urgently redeploying troops toward the Pokrovsk sector in eastern Ukraine amid a critical shortage of manpower and operational reserves, according to informants from the ATESH partisan movement and embedded agents within Russia’s own military units on November 12.
Sources near Vuhledar told ATESH that military convoys loaded with personnel and armored vehicles are moving daily toward Pokrovsk. The reinforcements, they said, appear to be pulled from the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia fronts.
🇺🇦 The road (M-30 Hwy) from Pokrovsk to Novopavlivka — scattered with burned Russian vehicles.
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Frontline_Daily (@ukraine_frontup) November 11, 2025
“This is the southern outskirts of Pokrovsk, where a Russian column moved through the fog — and was destroyed. The vehicles farther away burned today. Our defenders continue to destroy… pic.twitter.com/iEGG6glj7R
“The Russian army has evidently exhausted both its main forces and its operational reserves needed to continue the offensive,” ATESH reported. “They are being forced to strip other front-line sectors to sustain the assault on Pokrovsk.”
Agents inside the 506th Motor Rifle Regiment said that hundreds of soldiers are arriving in the area every day. Many of the new arrivals are being thrown into combat almost immediately, often without being formally registered in their new units.
“New personnel are sent straight into assaults,” one Atesh source said. “Some don’t even have time to complete their paperwork before being ordered to attack.”
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The intelligence aligns with Ukraine’s broader battlefield assessments that Moscow is attempting to seize Pokrovsk “at any cost”, even as Russian forces face staggering losses in men and equipment.
Ukrainian officials have described Pokrovsk—a major logistical and transport hub—as one of Russia’s top current objectives, following months of attritional fighting across the Donetsk region.
Atesh noted that Russia’s accelerated troop transfers highlight the strain on its military capacity, as it stretches already depleted reserves across multiple fronts.
“They keep sending fresh forces to certain death,” the group said, describing morale among the new arrivals as extremely low.
Earlier, Ukrainian armored units entered combat with Russian troops in the city of Rodynske, Donetsk region, as Moscow’s forces continue attempts to seize the area critical for logistics along the Pokrovsk axis.
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