Pokrovsk has been dubbed a "fortress" city, key for Ukraine's logistics and a long-time stronghold for Kyiv in the east.

Currently, Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold ... to The Independent a week after the attack that the assault was a “military ...

It is also a key route linking towns further east to the rest of unoccupied Ukraine. Its capture could afford Russia “multiple options for further advances”, the group adds. Velyka Novosilka ...

Russia has claimed that its forces captured a battered but strategic town in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, a day after Kyiv launched a counterattack in the Russian region of Kursk.