After a year of hard fighting, Russian troops are finally closing a pincer around the fortress city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast — while also infiltrating the city’s ruins with at least one small team of saboteurs. The 155th Mechanized Brigade has had to reorganize and reform while also holding some of the most tenuous positions on the 700-mile front line of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine. Several of the 69-ton, four-person Leopard 2A4s in and around Pokrovsk have taken hits from the tiny explosive drones that are everywhere along both sides of the front line as the wider war on Ukraine grinds into its 42nd month.
Author: David Axe
Published at: 2025-07-23 22:37:38
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