WHITE FLAGS EVERYWHERE! Entire Russian Units LAY DOWN ARMS TO UKRAINIAN FORCES!

Today, there are a lot of interesting updates from the Pokrovsk direction.

Here, Ukrainians have decimated Russian logistics through drone strikes and precise artillery fire, creating numerous roads of death in the Russian rear. 

With freezing temperatures dropping below 18 degrees Celsius, and being issued donkeys instead of trucks for transport, many Russian soldiers simply opted to wave the white flag to surrender, instead of continuing the fight. 

The goal of the Ukrainian forces in this area is to undermine the Russian offensive effort around Pokrovsk. To achieve this, the Ukrainians are constantly striking Russian logistics to prevent the arrival of heavy equipment, soldiers, and supplies to the frontline. 

This creates severe issues for the Russian forces on the frontline, including a lack of manpower and armored support, which allows the Ukrainians to conduct rapid and successful counterattacks that further disrupt the Russian offensive.

The main contributor to high Russian manpower losses is the effectiveness of Ukrainian drone surveillance and the precision of kamikaze drone units. Both Russian and Ukrainian soldiers report that Ukrainian drones swarm the frontline, making any movement in the open basically impossible and akin to suicide. 

Geolocated footage from Novovasylivka underscores this sentiment, showing the sheer quantity of Ukrainian drones in the sky simultaneously. 

One drone conducts the strike, while another is an observation drone equipped with a droppable grenade, looking for targets with a thermal camera. The other FPV drone is on standby, ready to strike any other target that might present itself. 

Such effective methods of surveillance and precision strikes led to some individual Ukrainian drone operators eliminating over a company of Russian soldiers, between 150 and 200 men, around Pokrovsk alone. Meanwhile, Russian forces lack a sufficient number of experienced drone operators to keep up with Ukrainians, leading to overwhelming Ukrainian drone superiority in this direction.

Ukrainians have not only targeted the Russian frontline but also disrupted logistics deep behind enemy lines with precision strikes from drones and artillery. 

Footage from Russian soldiers shows Russian logistics routes transformed into roads of death, filled with destroyed armored vehicles, trucks, and cars. 

This destruction has forced Russian troops to resort to civilian vehicles, motorbikes, or even walking to the front. The lack of proper transport and continuous strikes have slowed logistics, leaving Russian soldiers at Pokrovsk complaining of shortages in food, water, fuel, and equipment, often scavenging these from fallen comrades. 

With temperatures plunging to minus eighteen degrees, many of them also report suffering from frostbite during long marches and time spent idle in the trenches.

In a desperate effort to remedy their collapsing logistics at Pokrovsk, the Russian Ministry of Defense issued donkeys, horses, and mules to soldiers in the Pokrovsk direction to be used for transport and supply animals. Quite obviously, this provides no real relief to Russian soldiers stuck on the frontline, with animals not being able to compensate for the lack of a strong motorized logistics network. 

To many Russian soldiers on the frontline, the use of donkeys, horses, and mules was the final straw, exposing the desperate state of their own military. Ukrainians were well aware of this and strapped loudspeakers to their drones, broadcasting messages to Russian soldiers, offering them to surrender. 

Many Russian soldiers decided that surrendering would be the only way they could be adequately fed and treated for their illnesses, leading large numbers of Russian soldiers to give up the fight, as one group of 9 soldiers left their trenches waving the white flag. 

Overall, the Ukrainians managed to deplete and strain Russian logistics, stretching the Russian offensive to the point of culmination, and leading to the Russian Ministry of Defense officially issuing donkeys and horses for logistics and transport purposes. Poor logistics reduce the flow of Russian soldiers to the frontline and slows their response time. Underfed, underequipped, and under constant counterattacks, Russian soldiers' morale has now dropped to an all-time low, with surrenders becoming more frequent by the day. Such circumstances enabled Ukrainians to push back, retake the initiative, and regain ground, an effort which will continue as the collapse of the Russian logistics can lead to a complete collapse of Russian lines west of Pokrovsk.