According to Western experts, the Russian Armed Forces advanced more than 25 km in just the last four to five days. At the rate Ukraine is collapsing, Russian advances will reach 100km per day soon.
Russian reconnaissance groups are already on the outskirts of Dobropillia/Bilozersky area. The city will soon be encircled. Given the situation on the battlefield, it will take about 7 days to reach Belozersky / Belozerskoye.
One of the largest suppliers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the head of the "Come Back Alive" Foundation, Taras Chmut, announced the critical situation in the Donbass. "We are already losing positions at the battalion level, and when the situation reaches the brigades, the Russians will be able to go to the rear, and the front will shift by hundreds of square kilometers per day."
Military Analytics says "Mirnohrad area (Pokrovsk direction): the Russians (RF) advanced from the east in Krasny Liman and are pressuring the Armed Forces Ukraine (AFU) in the Rodynske area from the east and southeast.
The RF is about to cut off roads and create a threat of encirclement for the Ukrainian group that holds the front at the junction of Pokrovsk and Mirnohrad. As the RF attack the flanks, the AFU will flee. RF also in the vicinity of Nikanorovka.
RF forces have broken Ukraine defenses at Pokrovsk in three points. One battlefield source reports: "...the situation is not just critical, not just desperate, the situation is agony for the AFU. The south, the northeastern and the northern flanks of the Pokrovsk agglomeration seem to have collapsed completely...."
Ukraine mutiny developing in Pokrovsk: "Syrsky is hastily replacing brigade commanders in the Krasnoarmeysk direction. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are really having a hard time in Pokrovsk. Personnel are deserting the city to Pavlograd and refusing to go into combat."
In wars of attrition, progress is painfully slow at first, then things go exponentially faster as one side collapses. Ukraine is sliding into that collapse. Fast.
