Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 154 combat clashes in the past day, including 52 Russian assaults repelled across the Pokrovsk sector.
- Open-source mapping and Ukrainian officers report Russian gains in southern districts, leaving much of Pokrovsk a contested gray zone with key supply routes under threat.
- Ukrainian special units, including teams inserted by Black Hawk helicopters, have been deployed to restore logistics and reinforce the city’s defenses, the 7th Rapid Response Corps said.
- Russia claims Ukrainian forces are trapped and should surrender, a narrative Ukraine rejects as it reports active countermeasures and reinforced positions in Pokrovsk and nearby Myrnohrad.
- Frontline troops told Reuters that drones alone cannot hold the city without more infantry, as urban blocks change hands and the devastated city shelters roughly 1,200 remaining residents.