图文解读乌军对俄罗斯的跨境反攻

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BBC 最新报道俄国在乌克兰主要城市取得进展，基辅在库尔斯克入侵放缓​

周三乌克兰总统承认，“情况及其困难”。​

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俄罗斯向乌克兰主要城市推进，基辅库尔斯克的入侵放缓

作者：伊利亚·阿比舍夫

8 小时前

俄罗斯最近几天取得了全面进展，有可能超过乌克兰在库尔斯克地区跨境进攻中取得的成果。

这些批评者说，通过向库尔斯克派遣军队而不是增援东部前线，军队让波克罗夫斯克和其他乌克兰重要城镇暴露在外。

“情况极其困难，”乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基周三承认。

军事专家米哈伊洛·日罗霍夫警告说：“如果我们失去了波克罗夫斯克，整个前线就会崩溃。”

为什么波克罗夫斯克很重要

西尔斯基将军周二表示：“库尔斯克方向进攻行动的目标之一是从其他方向转移大量敌军，主要是波克罗夫斯克和库拉霍夫方向。”

但这一目标似乎已经失败。俄罗斯军队尚未从波克罗夫斯克前线重新部署。

相反，他们得到了更多部队的加强，并且他们的前进速度加快了。

Russia pushes on key Ukraine city while Kyiv's Kursk incursion slows​

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Article information

• Author, Ilya Abishev
• Role, BBC Russian
• Reporting from Riga
• 8 hours ago

Russia has made sweeping advances in recent days that threaten to outweigh the gains made by Ukraine in its cross-border attack into the Kursk region.

By sending troops into Kursk instead of reinforcing the eastern frontline, the military has left Pokrovsk and other important Ukrainian towns exposed, these critics say.

“The situation is extremely difficult,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky conceded on Wednesday.

“If we lose Pokrovsk,” military expert Mykhaylo Zhyrokhov warned, “the entire front line will crumble."

Why Pokrovsk matters​

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Image caption, Pokrovsk is home to a key rail route used to supply the frontline. In recent days, it's been used to help evacuate civilians

Pokrovsk is next to another town, Myrnohrad. Together, the two settlements had a pre-war population of over 100,000, most of whom have now fled. They are the last major cities in that part of the Donetsk region that remain under Ukrainian control.

The battle for Pokrovsk is really a continuation of the battle for Avdiivka, which Ukraine lost in February after months of bloody fighting.

Avdiivka, which is about 40km (25 miles) south-east of Pokrovsk, was seen as a fortress that protected the settlements and roads to its west - helping to bolster Ukraine’s presence along the entire frontline.

When it finally fell, Avdiivka was left in ruins. It was a serious loss for Ukraine.

It meant that Russia could move its focus to Pokrovsk and the key hilltop town of Chasiv Yar, which overlooks some of the important cities in Donetsk still under Ukrainian control. Intense fighting there on Saturday left five people dead.

For weeks now a mass evacuation of Ukrainian civilians from Pokrovsk has been under way, with thousands said to have left already.

"One of the objectives of the offensive operation in the Kursk direction was to divert significant enemy forces from other directions, primarily from the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove directions,” Gen Syrskyi said on Tuesday.

But that objective appears to have failed. Russian forces have not been redeployed from the Pokrovsk frontline.

On the contrary they’ve been strengthened by additional troops and their advance has quickened.

Russia pushes on key Ukraine city of Pokrovsk while Kyiv's Kursk incursion slows - BBC News

Russia is poised to assault Pokrovsk, a crucial supply and reinforcement hub for Ukraine's frontline troops.

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