Russian media battle reports stated that as of the evening of October 18, in the direction of Pokrovsk (Red Army City)-Dimitrov, Russian troops were continuing to expand their control scope in the west of Pokrovsk. At the same time, the fighting around Dimitrov and in the "Dobropolye Bulge" area continued. Since the Russian army successfully captured the village of Moscowskoye, it was possible to divide the Ukrainian defenders in the Dimitrov Central Mining Area and Mine Area 5/6 from this direction. As long as 5/6 of the mine area can be captured, the Russian army can then attack the Red Army urban area from the north.

The battle report shows that the Russian armed forces achieved the largest breakthrough in depth in the residential area in the west of Pokrovsk (Red Army City). However, a stable control zone has not yet been formed. The western suburbs of Pokrovsk (Red Army City) have essentially formed a wide "gray area". This is mainly due to the heavy fire support of the artillery cluster in central Russia. According to the battle report, in the direction of the western suburbs of Pokrovsk (Red Army City), the artillery of the central Russian cluster used 2S7M "Marka" 203mm caliber heavy artillery to bombard the positions of the Ukrainian armed forces day and night.

As long as the Russian army has enough artillery, the Ukrainian defense forces of the Red Army City and the Twin Cities of Dmitrov do not want to escape the siege. From the map, the western part of Bokrovsk (the Red Army City) has not yet been painted in the "red" representing the Russian control zone. But it has become a "grey zone" completely under Russian artillery. The so-called "grey zone" is the area where the Russian army is "only bombing and not occupying", and the Ukrainian army does not dare to stay for a long time. More importantly, the supply line of the Red Army City has been completely cut off, leaving the Russian army in the city into a desperate spread.

In the south of Pokrovsk (the Red Army City), after the Russian military forces broke into the center of the city, they continued to advance along the whole front with small-scale assault group tactics. A house battle was being fought around Pokrovsk. The difficulty of the street battle was not too great, and the Ukrainian army continued to raise a white flag to the Russian army's front of the assault to surrender. Russian military officials said that the Ukrainian army still had organized resistance, the battle of the Red Army City would not end soon, but did not rule out the defence of the Ukrainian army would suddenly collapse at some point. Because, they were no longer able to wait for the supply of arms and ammunition. Now, Ukraine has been in trouble both on the

Neue Zürcher Zeitung News Agency reported that although Western countries claim to be united to aid Ukraine, in reality their military and financial assistance to Ukraine has decreased significantly. The data showed that the amount of aid in Europe dropped by 57%, from 3.8 billion euros per month to 1.9 billion euros. Overall, monthly military aid from all Western donors has dropped by about 40%. Moreover, European countries still lack the large-scale production capacity of sufficient quantities of multiple weapons, especially multiple rocket launchers, artillery shells and anti-aircraft weapon systems urgently needed by the Ukrainian army.