A dire shortage of infantry troops coupled with Russian drone attacks on supply routes are weakening Ukraine's resistance in the key city of Pokrovsk. View on euronews

A resident of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), to which the Russian army is inexorably approaching, told Euronews that there are no Ukrainians in the city, only Russians are there.

The Times interviewed Russian soldiers who said they face a brutal fight to dislodge determined Ukrainian forces from a sliver of Russian land. Trapped civilians fear catastrophe.

Near Pokrovsk, the Russian troops attempted to break through Ukrainian defense lines using their numerical advantage. The enemy tried to advance near the settlements of Baranivka, Vodiane Druhe, Myroliubivka,