Russian and Ukrainian troops battle in ruins of Pokrovsk

On Monday, a spokesperson for the General Staff of Ukraine’s military reaffirmed, in comments to the Interfax-Ukraine news agency, that not a single military unit was encircled in the Pokrovsk sector.

Russian and Ukrainian troops fought battles on Tuesday in the ruins of Pokrovsk, a transport and logistics hub in eastern Ukraine that Moscow has been trying to capture for over a year.