A Ukrainian serviceman operates a BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle on a road near Pokrovsk, the eastern Donetsk region, on December 11, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Russian troops destroyed or captured several Ukrainian positions near the eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv's military said on Wednesday, as Moscow bears down on the strategic logistics hub that is home to a unique Ukrainian coking mine.Russian troops destroyed or captured several Ukrainian positions near the eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv's military said on Wednesday, as Moscow bears down on the strategic logistics hub that is home to a unique Ukrainian coking mine.
The fall of Pokrovsk, an important logistics centre for the Ukrainian military, would amount to the biggest military setback for Kyiv in months. The city also hosts a mine which is Ukraine's only domestic coking coal supplier for its once-giant steel industry., said he had visited a marine unit in the Pokrovsk sector and noted the conditions servicemen faced against "an enemy superior, primarily, in terms of manpower.
A set of 'dragon's teeth' fortifications, installed by the Ukrainian army, are seen on a street in Pokrovsk, on Wednesday. Pokrovsk, situated about 18 kilometres 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-old full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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