💥 Attack

Russian forces recently advanced near Pokrovsk.

December 1, 2024 Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast

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Kyiv Post Kyiv Independent Ukrinform

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Entities

Russian forces (military_unit) Vladimir Putin (person) Pokrovsk (location) Druzheliubivka (location) Hrekivka (location) Hryhorivka (location) Terniv (location) Torske (location) Chasiv Yar (location) Toretsk (location) Shcherbynivka (location) Ukrainian defenders halted 33 Russian assault and offensive actions by Russian troops in the Pokrovsk sector. (person) Volodymyr Zelenskyy (person) Denis Pushilin (person) Kurakhove (location)

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Kyiv Post → Source tone: likely

Russian forces recently advanced near Pokrovsk

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

Ukraine's great fortress city of Pokrovsk has officially fallen — as far as Moscow is concerned

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

More than five weeks after Russian troops first started to swarm into the southern outskirts of the Donetsk Oblast city, Pokrovsk has been decisively overrun, although Kyiv still claims a presence inside the urban area

Ukrinform → Source tone: certain

In the Lyman sector, Russian forces launched eight attacks, attempting to advance near Druzheliubivka, Hrekivka, Hryhorivka, Terniv, and Torske.

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