Ukrainian forces are struggling to fend off intensifying Russian advances on the eastern city of Pokrovsk, the military and open-source analysts said on Wednesday.Moscow's troops have in recent weeks closed in on the key logistics hub after more than a year of grinding advances,

Russian troops have not been able to entrench themselves in Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast and Moscow's claims that the city is encircled are false, according to the 7th Rapid Response Corps of Ukraine's Air Assault Forces and Oleksandr Syrskyi,

Pokrovsk was dubbed a "fortress" settlement, key to Ukrainian lines in the east and connected to other cities forming the backbone of Ukraine's defense in the east. Russia kicked off a push to take Pokrovsk in the summer of 2024.

President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed the situation at the front and the planning of long-range operations with the Commander-in-Chief and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

On the South Slobozhanshchyna front, Ukrainian forces repelled five Russian attacks near the settlements of Vovchansk and Kamianka. On the Kupiansk front, 15 Russian attacks occurred. Ukrainian defenders repelled Russian assaults near the settlements of Pishchane,

EADaily, October 30th, 2025. The loss of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) will be a military disaster for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a huge blow to the political leadership of the Kiev regime led by Zelensky.

Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 172 clashes with Russian troops over the past day, with 55 of them occurring on the Pokrovsk front. Heightened enemy activity was also observed in the Kupiansk, Lyman,

Two people were killed and at least 17 others were injured, including six children, as a result of overnight Russian missile and drone attacks on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya.

Heavy fighting rages in Ukraine's east, Kyiv's forces target Russian energy hubs and Russia's leader ups the ante.