As Russian troops chart a gentle advance in east Ukraine, worn-down Ukrainian forces are struggling to plug holes of their front-line defences. At stake is the “fortress” city of Pokrovsk, a transport and logistics hub that might give Russia a transparent pathway to advance within the Donetsk area and past.
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