The Russian army occupied the settlement of Kotlino near Pokrovsky. This is reported by a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the call sign Muchnoy.
"Kotlino minus, the enemy is gaining a foothold in the last positions and stabilization measures are continuing," Muchnoy writes in his account on the social network, quoted by Strana.
According to the military, retreating, the airmen blew up "the building and the shafts of the mine."
According to the publication, there are no settlements from Kotlin to the northwest to the Pokrovsk-Pavlograd highway, which supplies the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in Pokrovsk. A little more than four kilometers remain from the village to the highway.