Ukraine: Battle for key city of Pokrovsk rages on • FRANCE 24 English

Russian media refers to it as the gateway to Detsk and the Russian military now claims to have captured it. The city of Picovsk in the east has become a focal point in Russia’s campaign with these images purporting to show attacks on a neighboring town. If confirmed, the capture would be the most important Russian territorial game of the year. Lacrosse is an important city. they haven’t had, you know, too many um important successes, I’d say, for for key cities, but this would be an important success in 2025. And so, it’s quite important for them to to to uh to capture the city, but I think before the end of the year. You know, Russia has advanced probably about twice the rate in 2025 as it did in 2024. But in many cases, they’re advancing in somewhat less important directions. Ukraine rejects Russia’s claim, saying its troops are holding on to the city despite difficult conditions. Keev has deployed special forces there to push back on what it calls an intense Russian assault. 20% of Russia’s artillery goes to Pocross. So you can understand how difficult it is for us. Up to 300 Russian troops are in the city. Our 425th assault regimen is working inside Pocross and is engaged in quite intense combat operations. Another focus for Russia, Ukraine’s power grid. As the days get darker and colder, Kev’s national energy operator says several regions faced rolling power cuts on Sunday as a result of targeted Russian attacks, like one in Zaparia, where 58,000 homes were plunged into darkness. Facing a fourth winter of blackouts, millions of Ukrainians are preparing for hardship. Their president warning that Vladimir Putin is orchestrating a humanitarian disaster.

Russian and Ukrainian forces clashed on Tuesday in Pokrovsk, a key transport and logistics hub in eastern Ukraine that Moscow has sought to capture for over a year. Ukraine reported heavy fighting in areas crucial for frontline logistics, sending reinforcements and additional equipment. Meanwhile, Russia claimed to have cleared 35 buildings of Ukrainian troops and said it was pressuring surrounded forces near Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region.
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33 comments

  13. Important city? There is nothing left of it. Stop this idiocracy and accept reality. Either the EU should join the war or negotiate an end to it. Ukraine is suffering because of European hubris and delusion.

  14. Pro-Russian and Pro-Israeli trolls are recruited from the same group, as you can see from any threads about Ukraine and Palestine.

  15. Mr Macron having been slapped by her wife lost three Prime Ministers

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    US shutdown continues for a month and people are not getting salaries
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    Enjoy

  17. So, are you trying to say the Kremlin isn't lying this time..? 🤔 I mean, historically, the wise thing has been not to believe anything, until the Kremlin denies it, right?..🤨 So what's different now?.. Why should we all of a sudden start believing them?.. Have the all of a sudden reversed 180 degree's, & implented a new radical policy of truth?.. Like for the first time in some 500 years?.. I'd say that would be very out-of-character…🤨

  18. Russians are still suffering from the collective trauma of Stalin. They cannot think for themselves yet. They are stuck in a child-like state. Perhaps future generations of Russians will eventually mature.

  20. The Gaza War and the Ukraine War must stop immediately. The killing of innocent people must stop. These bombings seem like a warning sign of a major earthquake. Human sin is more than this earth can bear.

  22. What BS is this? None of the images are current or even correspond to the subject matter. The 30-year old Foreign Policy Analyst, lol, what a joke. I wonder how many time that dude has been down on his knees to get that job?

  24. The comedian sold everything, even young ppl in the frontline, they die for nothing. Its a big lost all those ppl who meanings less

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