Russian forces gain foothold in strategic Ukrainian town
Zelensky said drone imagery showed that around 200 Russian soldiers were inside Pokrovsk.
It would also put towns of the heavily fortified "fortress belt" - Kramatorsk, Slovyansk, Kostyantynivka and Druzhkivka - within easier reach of Moscow.
Russia has been trying to capture Pokrovsk for two years. The key supply and transport hub provides supplies and reinforcements to the eastern front - and it would get Moscow closer to occupying the entirety of the Donetsk region.
Moscow's soldiers outnumber Kyiv's 8-1 in the area and Ukraine cannot match that, Zelensky added while insisting Russia had not yet "a
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