After more than a year of bloody assaults, hundreds of Russian troops are now fighting inside the city of Pokrovsk.

Russia said on Monday that its troops had advanced in the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a transport and logistics hub that Moscow’s forces have been seeking to capture for well over a year. The Russian

Russian lawmakers have endorsed a bill mandating year-round military conscription, rather than just in the spring and fall, as authorities seek to fill the ranks as fighting in Ukraine grinds through a fourth year.

Oleksandr Syrskyi denies Russian reports that Ukrainian troops are surrounded in the eastern town of Pokrovsk.

Authorities have arrested a Latvian citizen for allegedly spying on the country's defense sector for Russia's GRU military intelligence service

EADaily, November 2nd, 2025. The Russian military repelled nine attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the northern and north-western directions near Krasnoarmeysk in order to get out of the encirclement.

Army sources tell the BBC military intelligence special forces are being used to protect supply lines into Pokrovsk.