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The original was posted on /r/ukrainewarvideoreport by /u/Spiritual-Piglet-341 on 2025-11-08 14:34:48+00:00.

An interest article (IMHO) written by former British UAF Azov member, Shaun Pinner, who fought in the defence of Mariupol in 2022 and was later captured, held prisoner, tortured and at one point sentenced to death by a Russian kangaroo court.

In it he explains why Ukraine so tenaciously continues to defend Pokrovsk in Donetsk against seemingly insurmountable odds instead of just surrendering the town to the inevitable and falling back to another defence line. Any subsequent loss of Pokrovsk after such a hard fought defence will undoubtedly be a blow to Ukrainian moral, but for the price they will have paid any Russian celebration would be very short lived for what will be another Pyrrhic victory like Bahkmut & Avdiivka.

Worth bearing in mind that the defence of these three Ukrainian towns will go down in history as being responsible for almost half a million Russian casualties and holding back the mighty Russian Army for over three years in a single Oblast. Slava Ukranii.