'Russia is advancing towards multiple areas in the Donbas region'

The city of Pokrovsk, once a key logistics and cultural hub, now teeters on the brink of collapse. Through firsthand accounts, we see not only the brutal physical destruction of war but also the complete evisceration of the human condition. Ever since mid-2024, residents and Ukrainian officials have been stripping everything of value from the frontline town of Pokrovsk: library books, hospital beds, industrial equipment, everything that once supported a bustling settlement of more than 60,000 people at the heart of Ukraine’s eastern, mainly Russian-speaking Donbas region. International war correspondent Anna Conkling joins Gavin Lee and asserts that "this could be the final days of Pokrovsk under Ukrainian control".