Ukrainian Paratroops Retake Kotlyne, Another Russian Pokrovsk Setback

Ukrainian paratroopers have retaken Kotlyne, near Pokrovsk, in another setback for Russian forces attempting to advance on that city. 

Repeated defeat of futile Russian assaults combined with successful Ukrainian counterattacks suggest that the Kremlin threat to Pokrovsk has continued to diminish. JL

Ukraine Pravda reports:

Paratroopers of the 25th Airborne Brigade have liberated the village of Kotlyne on the Pokrovsk front. Kotlyne is strategically important on the Pokrovsk front, as its capture would allow Russians to reach the Pokrovsk-Dnipro motorway. Russian forces gained ostensible control over Kotlyne in January but Moscow never formally said that they had captured it.

Paratroopers of the 25th Separate Airborne Sicheslav Brigade have liberated the village of Kotlyne on the Pokrovsk front in Donetsk Oblast. 

Ukrainian military observers have said that Russian forces gained ostensible control over Kotlyne in January but Moscow has never formally said that they had captured it.

The settlement lies around five kilometers (three miles) from the highway.

Source: Ukrainian Air Assault Forces on Telegram

Quote: "In the course of assault and recovery operations, paratroopers of the 25th Separate Airborne Sicheslav Brigade of the Air Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine conducted a mop-up operation in the village of Kotlyne near Pokrovsk."

Details: As the Air Assault Forces reported, Kotlyne is strategically important on the Pokrovsk front, as its capture would allow Russians to reach the Pokrovsk-Dnipro motorway. That is why the Russians deployed significant forces to storm Kotlyne. However, Ukrainian paratroopers, together with other units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, did not allow the Russians to gain a foothold in the settlement and took it under their control.