Ukraine
Ukraine Battlefield Brief: Find out what's been happening on the frontline
Pokrovsk is a city under siege – Russian forces have been trying to take this key town for a year, reducing it to rubble.
Taking this so-called Gateway to Donetsk would be a major step toward Vladimir Putin's aim of controlling the Donbas.
But while Ukraine's commander-in-chief, General Oleksandr Syrski, admits the battle is "difficult and dynamic", he denies his forces have been encircled.
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