According to military channels, a powerful three-ton high-explosive aerial bomb (FAB-3000) was used against a deployment point of Ukrainian forces in the Pokrovsk direction. The strike reportedly hit an area where personnel of the 59th Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were concentrated.

Hero of Russia, Major General Sergey Lipovoy, commenting to aif.ru, said that the FAB-3000 is used relatively rarely by Russian forces and primarily intended for destroying hardened underground targets. According to him, such munitions are designed to hit underground depots, command posts, decision-making centers, and other military facilities, including possible energy installations. Lipovoy stressed that the consequences of a FAB-3000 strike are catastrophic: underground structures collapse, and the chances of survival after such an impact are virtually nonexistent.

Separate attention was drawn to the arrival of a medical Boeing 737 operated by SAS in Rzeszow, Poland. The city plays a key logistical role for foreign mercenaries of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and Lipovoy suggested that the urgent medical flight could be linked to the aftermath of the strike near Pokrovsk. He did not rule out that the aircraft may have arrived to evacuate high-ranking NATO officers who could have been present at the targeted command post to oversee the use of Western weapons.

Lipovoy also stated that, in his assessment, Ukraine has virtually no high-level specialists left, which is why NATO instructors are present in areas where precision weapon launch systems and multiple launch rocket systems are deployed.

Military channels further reported that the evacuation of the wounded may have involved not only the Boeing 737 but also other medical aircraft heading to Salzburg and Hamburg.

For his part, Honored Military Pilot, Major General Vladimir Popov supported the version that the Boeing may have arrived to evacuate senior foreign specialists. He did not rule out that wounded mercenaries could also have been transported on the same flight, as NATO is not inclined to trust Ukrainian medical services.