Russians are just 2 kilometers from Mirnograd: residents are urged to evacuate for their safety.

Russian occupiers are now just two kilometers from the city of Myronhrad in the Donetsk region, which is under constant shelling and lacks water, electricity, and gas. This was reported by the communication department of the Donetsk regional police.

It is noted that approximately three thousand people remain in Myronhrad, surviving amid the bombardments.

"An industrial city that had over 46 thousand residents before the full-scale war is now scarred and devastated. Russian troops have approached Myronhrad almost closely, turning it into a scorched desert. The neighborhoods in the vicinity are shattered to pieces. The Russians have destroyed enterprises and bombed the hospital. There is no electricity, drinking water, or gas. People go to the well for water, and they can only call their relatives from specific locations," the message states.

The police added that local residents are afraid to leave, and only a few are evacuating—those who have lost their homes due to the latest shelling.

"People are escaping with just two bags in their hands, while when there was a chance to leave with all their belongings, they refused. Therefore, we are patrolling the city daily: to identify and rescue those who have changed their minds; we communicate and persuade them that life is more important than anything else," said the head of the prevention sector of Myronhrad police, Volodymyr Chervinchak.

It is also reported that, according to preliminary data, there are no children in the city—all have been evacuated. However, law enforcement is checking whether such families have returned to danger.

As reported by UNIAN, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the occupiers plan to cut off ground supply routes to Pokrovsk and Myronhrad, aiming to force Ukrainian troops to retreat from these cities within the next few months.

It was reported that the advance of Russian troops to the east and west of Pokrovsk may complicate logistics and the ability of Ukrainian forces to replenish supplies and redeploy troops. If the Defense Forces are forced to retreat north, the occupiers could encircle Pokrovsk and Myronhrad and advance towards the administrative border between the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

Analysts suggest that the Russian military command likely hopes to avoid conducting frontal assaults on the urban areas of Pokrovsk and Myronhrad with large numbers of infantry.