No units of the Ukrainian defence forces are encircled in the Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad urban area in Donetsk Oblast, Major Andrii Kovalov, spokesperson for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has visited troops near the town of Pokrovsk, where the fiercest front line battle between Russia and Ukraine is currently taking place. Zelensky posted photos showing him meeting personnel at a command post in the Dobropillya sector, some 20km (12 miles) north of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.

The footage shows how Ukraine is scrambling to defend the embattled city from brutal Russian assaults.

A total of 154 combat clashes have occurred on the battlefield over the past day, with Ukrainian forces repelling 52 Russian attacks near 15 settlements on the Pokrovsk front. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook,

By Andrew Osborn and Felix Hoske MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces are advancing inside the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, destroying trapped Ukrainian military formations and repelling Ukrainian efforts to break out of encirclement,

Over this period, the SBU struck 39 artillery systems, including multiple-launch rocket systems that the enemy used to shell Pokrovsk. To enable effective drone strikes on invasion forces, the fighters destroyed 18 air defense and electronic warfare/intelligence systems.

Over the past month, fighters from the Alfa Special Operations Center have inflicted significant losses on Russian forces in the Pokrovsk area and its surroundings. Hundreds of militants and a large amount of equipment have been destroyed,

Hello, this is Chris York from a cloudy fall day in Kyiv on day 1,350 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story so far: Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) on Nov. 4 released footage of what is said was an ongoing special operation in the embattled city of Pokrovsk,