Daniel Davis Deep Dive Merch: Etsy store https://www.etsy.com/shop/DanielDavisDeepDive?ref=seller-platform-mcnav Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate conducted 2 high-risk air assault operations using US-supplied Black Hawk helicopters in the Pokrovsk sector of Donetsk Oblast amid intense fighting by Russia. Pokrovsk, a key logistics hub, has been under siege for over one year, with Russian forces controlling ~80 percent of the city by late October 2025 & have now encircled the Ukrainian forces that remain in the area. The missions, overseen by GUR chief Kyrylo Budanov, tried, and failed, to insert elite special forces into contested or Russian-claimed areas. The key question is why? Andrei Martyanov weighs in.