By Andrew Osborn and Anastasiia Malenko MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces are pushing hard to encircle the strategically important eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after capturing a string of ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin Ukraine’s key logistic hub of Pokrovsk has fallen to the Armed Forces of Russia (AFR) after more than a year of fighting marking a major strategic defeat for Kyiv. Russian forces ...

Since 2014, when Ukraine lost control of the regional capital - the city of Donetsk - Pokrovsk has hosted an important technical university, the largest and oldest in the wider region. MORE: ...

MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces are starting to encircle the strategically important eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after capturing a string of villages to its south, and Ukraine has ...

Why Russia wants to capture Pokrovsk, a strategic Ukrainian city By Andrew Osborn and Anastasiia Malenko January 31, 2025 7:00 AM UTC Updated January 31, 2025 ...

MOSCOW - Russian forces are just 1.5 km (1 mile) outside the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after Russian units pushed up from the south, and some advance groups of special forces have even entered ...

Why is Pokrovsk important. While Pokrovsk is not a key city, the ‘strategic site’ is located on a key supply road and railroad that connect it with other military hubs in the area.

Pokrovsk, situated about 18 kilometres (11 miles) from the boundary of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, has for months been the area of the fiercest battles in Russia’s 33-month ...

KYIV: Russian forces are staging their heaviest assaults near the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv's military said on Monday (Jul 29), threatening a key supply route for Ukrainian troops ...

Russian forces are around 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) to the south of the strategically important eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, open-source maps published by Russian and Ukrainian war bloggers ...

Russian forces are around 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) to the south of the strategically important eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, open-source maps published by Russian and Ukrainian war bloggers ...

Russian forces are closing in on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, prompting some residents to evacuate for fear it will fall in the coming weeks.