16 Feb: PUTIN IN PANIC! Pokrovsk Offensive IS FALLING APART UNDER PRESSURE! | War in Ukraine

Here, as Russian forces struggle to maintain their offensive near Pokrovsk, Ukrainians launched a series of precise counterattacks to push them off balance. What followed in Kotlyne was a tactical display of ambushes, drone strikes, and armor-supported assaults that left Russian units scrambling to hold their ground.

The goal of the Ukrainian forces in this area was to maintain pressure on the Russian troops stationed in the settlement of Kotlyne. Russian forces here have been depleted by months of constant assaults in their effort to reach the Pokrovsk-Dnipro highway, located five kilometers north of Kotlyne, which is the main supply route of Pokrovsk. To undermine the Russian effort to flank Pokrovsk from the west, Ukrainians are launching counterattacks at Kotlyne, forcing the dwindling Russian forces to protect their positions in the village.

To achieve this, the Ukrainians kept reinforcing their foothold in the southern part of Kotlyne, from which Ukrainians could ambush and engage the Russian forces in close-quarters combat.