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On August 16, local time, military authorities in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk urged civilians to speed up their evacuation, saying that Russian troops were advancing rapidly. City officials said in a telegram that the Russian army "is advancing rapidly. As time goes by, there is less and less time to pack up personal belongings and go to safer areas."

A Russian soldier fights in the Kursk region of Russia on August 16.

Pokrovsk, with a pre-war population of about 60,000, is one of Ukraine's main defense strongholds and an important logistical hub for the Donetsk region. If the Russian army captures the area, it will weaken Ukraine's defense capabilities and supply lines and bring Russia closer to its established goal of occupying the entire Donetsk region.

Pokrovsk officials met with residents to provide them with logistical details of the evacuation. Civilians will be sheltered in western Ukraine, in dormitories and separate houses prepared for them. "As the front line approaches Pokrovsk, the need to move to safer places becomes more urgent," the local government said.

The Ukrainian army has been trying to divert Russia's military focus from the eastern front of Ukraine by crossing the border and attacking Russia's western Kursk region. But Ukrainian President Zelensky warned on the 15th that Pokrovsk and other nearby towns in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine "are facing the most intense Russian attacks."