Ukraine's Defence Intelligence is working to stabilise Pokrovsk, denies Russian claim that landing group was wiped out

Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) is conducting stabilisation measures in the city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast.

Source: an Ukrainska Pravda source in military intelligence

Details: On 1 November, Russia's defence ministry claimed that Russian forces had "repelled an operation by DIU special forces" that landed in the Pokrovsk area and that all 11 personnel who had disembarked from a helicopter had been killed.

A source told Ukrainska Pravda that reports of a Ukrainian landing group being wiped out are false, adding that stabilisation measures led by DIU Head Kyrylo Budanov are ongoing in the designated area of Pokrovsk.

Quote: "This information is just as false as [Russian Chief of Staff General Valery] Gerasimov's report to [Vladimir] Putin a few days ago that Pokrovsk was encircled."

Background: Reuters reported earlier, citing sources, that DIU special forces were deployed to Pokrovsk at the beginning of this week amid intensified fighting, with the aim of stabilising the situation.

Read more: How Pokrovsk is imperceptibly falling: five observations by Ukrainska Pravda

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