Ukraine tries to fend off intensifying Russian attacks on strategic eastern city
Europe • Oct 30, 2025, 10:23 AM
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             Ukrainian forces are struggling to fend off intensifying Russian advances around the eastern city of Pokrovsk. Moscow's troops have in recent weeks closed in on the key logistics hub after more than a year of grinding advances, which Kyiv says have come at a staggering human cost to Russia. FRANCE 24's Emmanuelle Chaze tells us more on why this battle is so strategic, from Kharkiv.
                        
Ukrainian forces are struggling to fend off intensifying Russian advances around the eastern city of Pokrovsk. Moscow's troops have in recent weeks closed in on the key logistics hub after more than a year of grinding advances, which Kyiv says have come at a staggering human cost to Russia. FRANCE 24's Emmanuelle Chaze tells us more on why this battle is so strategic, from Kharkiv.
        