Ukrainian and Russian forces have clashed 64 times since the beginning of the day on 9 February, with the Russians continuing ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.

A map of Pokrovsk: Michael Kofman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, said Pokrovsk’s transit routes meant that if it fell, Russian forces could use ...

New reports suggest that Moscow has advanced close to the embattled city of Pokrovsk and around the northeastern city of Kupiansk. Russia's government separately said on Tuesday it had captured ...

two settlements located on the Mezhova-Pokrovsk road. According to the map maintained by the Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState, the Russians are less than 2 km away, but Ukrainska Pravda has ...

However, battlefield maps published early Friday by the Ukrainian ... trying for months to capture the key Donetsk strongholds of Pokrovsk and nearby Chasiv Yar, fighting their way across farm ...

Russian troops are going around the vital logistics hub of Pokrovsk, where a steadfast Ukrainian defense has kept them at bay, and are taking aim at a highway that leads from there to the central ...