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 ...

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 ...

Russia is claiming it has captured another village in its relentless offensive in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region and as it closes in on the critical Ukrainian logistics hub of Pokrovsk after ...