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Major Viktor Trehubov stated that occupiers are bypassing Pokrovsk and focusing on cutting supply routes to it.

Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast
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UNIAN → Source tone: certain

Major Viktor Trehubov stated that occupiers are bypassing Pokrovsk, focusing on cutting supply routes.

Kyiv Post → Source tone: certain

Russian troops captured a number of settlements southwest of Pokrovsk between Dec. 1 and Jan. 13

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

The Pokrovsk coking coal mine halted production completely and evacuated employees on Jan. 13 due to Russian troop advances

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

The mine was Ukraine's last operating coking coal site and worth approximately $1.8 billion before the war

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