Russia’s deadly innovations cost 40% of all casualties in Pokrovsk as Putin’s races to Dnipropetrovsk border ahead of sacred holiday

From a bird’s-eye view, the city of Pokrovsk resembles a post-apocalyptic video game like Stalker. Here, the Russians are trying to overplay the time. This is because they have a task—to seize the town in Donetsk Oblast and reach the borders of neighboring Dnipropetrovsk Oblast by 9 May.