POKROVSK | Where Putin Smashed His Teeth

Voices from the Front Podcast · Nov 9, 2025 · 8m

🎙️Voices from the Front — Pokrovsk: Where Putin Smashed His Teeth 🪖 The battle for Pokrovsk isn’t just another frontline update, it’s the moment Putin’s invasion hit a wall. After four years of full-scale war and over a million Russian casualties, Moscow’s so-called “second strongest army in the world” is grinding itself into the Donetsk dirt.When I was there a year ago, the Russians were eight kilometers away. Fast-forward twelve months, they’ve lost thousands of men just trying to close that gap. Pokrovsk has become a symbol of what happens when Russia throws everything it has and still…