"O THE MAP LOOKS SO SCARY!” BUT IN REALITY POKROVSK IS & WILL BE UKRANIAN VICTORY 

Scientific Defense in Depth. Chokepoints and Obstacles can be constructed even absent natural mountains, rivers, oceans, canyons where defense can be planned utilizing nature to strategic advantage as with Panjshir valley. The strategic map does not accurately reflect the reality of Russian losses and attrition at Pokrovsk. Without understanding the ground situation: one’s gets the false impression that Ukrainian defenders are outnumbered whereas the defense is solid and is a living hades on earth for the aggressors who are forced to advance like prisoners across the open, without proper support, nor cover. Pokrovsk is another example of Ukraine’s defense advantage where offense and defense become blurred and the end result is nothing short of a Ukranian Strategic victory (the actual daily result is a daily tactical victory for Ukraine where the opposing force is enduring irreplaceable attrition). While territorial control is dynamic: the ongoing outcome has been Ukranian tactical victory even the Russian salient has inched closer to the city at excessive loss.