Russia’s defence ministry mentioned on November 6 that its forces had superior within the battered Ukrainian metropolis of Pokrovsk and have been combating house-to-house battles in a bid to eject Ukrainian forces from town. Russia has been threatening Pokrovsk for greater than a yr, seeing it because the “gateway” to the Donetsk area. Kyiv has acknowledged that the state of affairs in Pokrovsk has change into troublesome in latest days however denies its troops are surrounded.
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