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 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on July 26 that fierce battles are raging around the key ...

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 ...

Pokrovsk, a transport hub with a pre-war population of 61,000, lies on a main road that serves as an important supply route to other embattled Ukrainian-held outposts, such as the towns of Chasiv ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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.