This was said by AFU officer, political scientist Andriy Tkachuk on the air of Espreso."The situation is not difficult, the situation is critical. The enemy is really taking the city in a half-pincer, that is, from the south he is further pressing the settlement of Udachne in order to take this half-ring and try to close it. From the north, fighting is going on in the direction of Krasny Lyman in order to advance to the settlement of Pokrovsk, and the Russians have long since reached positions from which they can shell Dobropillya. In general, they are actively saturating this section of the Pokrovsk - Kramatorsk - Kostyantynivka front with guided aerial bombs. There were 30 guided aerial bombs per day until recently. This is a very large number of guided aerial bombs. This is really the situation that is difficult, it is really critical on this section of the front, because the enemy wants to capture Pokrovsk by the end of the year, for which they need some kind of big victory," he said.Andriy Tkachuk noted that the Russians expect to capture a dozen smaller settlements in addition to Pokrovsk in order to spend the winter in the cities."And they are counting on this settlement, as well as 9-11 smaller settlements in the section I mentioned, in order to spend the winter in cities and not be victims of our drones in the open field, in the open territory. Accordingly, we must understand this and work more effectively, because there is a big problem there with conveying information from personnel to the top. Very often, on some sections of the front, it is recorded that they give unreliable information, which is then accompanied by the problem of interaction with various units. Today, I know certain steps that we are taking in Pokrovsk, there are certain units that are very effective, and they are now being deployed there to correct the situation. I hope that we will be able to balance such a critical point and delay the occupation of the settlement as far as possible for the sake of complete and even greater exhaustion of the enemy, which we are inflicting on him along the entire front line," the officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine added.On July 29, the spokesman for the Khortytsia grouping of troops, Viktor Trehubov, stated that there are currently over 100,000 Russian troops in the Pokrovsk direction.On Tuesday, July 29, 156 combat clashes took place on the Russian-Ukrainian front. The enemy is most active in the Pokrovsk direction.