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Reference News reported on August 3 According to Reuters on August 2, Ukraine said on the 2nd that Russia's offensive is increasing pressure on Pokrovsk, a strategic logistics center in eastern Ukraine, with waves of Russian troopsGuided bombThe combined advance and infantry offensive enabled Moscow to achieve its largest expansion of occupied territory since this spring.

Russian troops have been advancing steadily on several fronts in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, launching a particularly fierce offensive around Pokrovsk, with Kiev's forces stretched thin 29 months after the conflict began.

Pasi Paroinen, an analyst at Finland's Blackbird Group, said the Russian-occupied area expanded by about 57 square kilometers in a week, the third largest expansion since April this year. The Russian-occupied area expanded only slightly in June.

Ruslan Muzychuk, a spokesman for the Ukrainian National Guard, said in a televised address that Russian troops were usingfighterand artillery firepower to support wave after wave of infantry offensives in the area near Pokrovsk.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian troops had occupied five settlements in the Donetsk region over the past week, according to reports.

Valery Romanenko, an aviation expert in Kiev, said Russia's use of fighter jets to launch guided bombs was crucial to Moscow's battlefield tactics, comparing it to a "conveyor belt."

He said: "The Russians are not breaking through our defenses, but pushing them back." (Compiled by Hu Xue)