Russian forces have captured considerably less territory in the Pokrovsk direction over the past week than during earlier periods, the independent Russian outlet Agentstvo reported on Sept. 7. Citing data from defense analysts, Agentstvo backed Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi’s recent claims that Moscow’s push near the key town is losing steam. Ukrainian officials have described Pokrovsk as the most difficult sector of the front. Russia has deployed experienced troops in an effort to capture this crucial logistics hub. The crowd-sourced Ukrainian monitoring site DeepState report…