Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SOF) used mid-range drones to deliver a series of attacks on Russian forces advancing in the Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad agglomeration in Donetsk Oblast on the night of 22-23 November.

Source: SOF press service; Ukrainska Pravda

Details: An important Russian position was destroyed in the city of Pokrovsk. This elevated position on an industrial facility had given Russian forces a significant tactical advantage on the battlefield. Russian snipers had used it to keep a wide area under fire advantage.

The facility had also served as a point for concentration of personnel. A successful strike by a mid-range loitering munition destroyed the key position and wiped out Russian manpower.

Several more Russian positions and personnel were destroyed or hit in temporarily occupied areas of Donetsk Oblast.

Ukrainian forces identified and destroyed an assembly area that belonged to Russian assault groups in the village of Shakhove in the temporarily occupied part of the Pokrovsk district. Soldiers from Russia's 336th Separate Guards Marine Brigade were inside at the moment of the strike. This brigade has been tasked with encircling Pokrovsk from the north. Several drones operated by the SOF successfully reached their targets.

SOF drones struck a temporary deployment point and an ammunition storage point used by attack UAV crews from the 6th Guards Tank Regiment of the 90th Guards Tank Division in the temporarily occupied village of Sontsivka. Russian manpower was wiped out.

A Russian ammunition storage point was destroyed in the town of Dokuchaievsk. The SOF says it had been used for storing, distributing and dispatching ammunition for the Russian group of troops advancing on Pokrovsk.

SOF drones successfully hit a logistics unit from the Vostok (East) group of troops of the Russian Armed Forces in the village of Rybynske. The Russians had converted former industrial and warehouse premises into a military site, building engineering and fortification structures and maintaining regular truck activity. After priority targets were identified, SOF delivered successful drone strikes on multiple facilities.

Ukrainska Pravda has established that all these events took place on the night of 22-23 November.

Background: The 7th Corps of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces reported that the centre of Pokrovsk, one of the most challenging points on the front lines, had been cleared of Russian troops.

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