The Russian army is about to conquer Ukraine's largest city since 2023. Pokrovsk (in Donetsk)), where some 60,000 people lived before the war. Kyiv's troops are trying to resist, but military analysts say that Moscow's victory is only a matter of time. However, this success, so desired by Vladimir Putin, will have cost him nearly sixteen months of attacks, thousands of deaths, and, although it will pave the way to the last Ukrainian strongholds in the region, it will still leave him far from the minimum objective of controlling all of Donbas.