I don't want to be a spoil sport but it seems that "napravlenie glavnovo udara" - the current direction of main assault in this region is to bypass Pokrovsk on the South side in Western direction. RFA is already quite busy with attritional inner city warfare in Kupyansk, Chasov Yar and Toretsk... By going straight West, RFA will probably remove any Ukranian fortifications created along the 2022/2023 lines.
I don't want to be a spoil sport but it seems that "napravlenie glavnovo udara" - the current direction of main assault in this region is to bypass Pokrovsk on the South side in Western direction. RFA is already quite busy with attritional inner city warfare in Kupyansk, Chasov Yar and Toretsk... By going straight West, RFA will probably remove any Ukranian fortifications created along the 2022/2023 lines.