A Noble Lie or Desperation? Russians Tighten the Blockade in Northern Pokrovsk MS For 2025.11.04

If Ukrainian forces are not already surrounded in Pokrovsk they soon will be. Once again Ukrainian commanders failed to withdraw their troops from danger until it was too late. This sort of high casualty holding operation looks like a deliberate attempt to massacre their own forces.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, November 5, 2025.]