Ukrainian forces are defending the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk against a Russian offensive. Russia is attempting to encircle the city and has halted gas flows to pro-western Moldova.
Kyiv defends ending transit role for Russia n gas as Kremlin halts flows to pro-western Moldova . Mourners holding smoke flares during the funeral ceremony of a Ukrainian serviceman in Kyiv on January 2nd, 2025.
Photograph: Tetiana Dzhaafarova/AFP troops are trying to surround the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk, and said the end of its role as a transit state for Russian gas flows to the Moscow’s invasion force has steadily ground towards Pokrovsk in recent months, and appears to be prioritising efforts to cut off the city, which was home to about 60,000 people before Russia launchedon its pro-western neighbour in February 2022. Several thousand civilians are still in the badly damaged city, which has been a hub for Ukrainian troops defending Donetsk region since fighting there began in 2014. “There is no street fighting in the city. The Russians have not reached the outskirts of the city, but they are trying to encircle it through neighbouring settlements and villages, infiltrating with various groups, accumulating forces and continuing to strike so as to bypass the city,” military spokesman Viktor Trehubov said on Thursday. “There is also active use of drones, and everything the Russian forces have right now is focused on the area around Pokrovsk,” he told Ukrainian television. “In the Pokrovsk area yesterday our defenders halted 38 attacks…by the aggressor. This is the most intense of all the fronts. It has been that way for the last few weeks. Neighbouring areas, such as Kurakhove and Vremivka, are also still very hot.”Aleksey Bugaev: The story of the former Russian international who died fighting in Ukraine Russia lays claim to five eastern and southern regions of Ukraine – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Crimea – including large areas that its troops do not control, and says no peace is possible until Kyiv accepts their permanent occupation and gives up its Nato membership ambitions foreve
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