Blowing up critical infrastructure to poison the battlefield represented an unprecedented act of desperation, yet the gas only blocked ground reinforcements while drone operators remained unaffected and decimated the relief column.
Under Magyar's command, Ukrainian drone units don't simply destroy vehicles—they maintain what he calls a "minimum monthly kill rate" that must exceed Russia's mobilization capacity, transforming warfare into brutal mathematics.
Ukrainian forces achieved significant territorial gains in the Pokrovsk direction by using coordinated drone swarms and ground operations to create three separate encirclements of Russian troops.
After two weeks of house-to-house fighting, Ukrainian assault groups have liberated the village of Udachne in Donetsk Oblast, raising the national flag over the settlement located 10 kilometers west of the contested city of Pokrovsk.
Russia systematically uses deceived Central Asian migrants and forcibly mobilized separatists from occupied areas as cannon fodder, reflecting Moscow's willingness to sacrifice marginalized populations for symbolic land victories.
What began as a Russian infiltration operation ended in retreat as Ukrainian surveillance detected and decimated the Russian forces with domestically-made BTR-4E armored vehicles.
Ukrainian special forces' thunder runs through Kotlyne in Donetsk Oblast demolished Russian defensive cohesion, creating openings for paratroopers to recapture the settlement through methodical house-to-house clearing operations.