Ukraine's vital eastern town Pokrovsk in Russian sights | BBC News

Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region last month helped to boost national morale, but the Kremlin has retaliated with serious of missile attacks.

On Sunday, Russia claimed to have taken control of a village just 10km from a key transportation hub Pokrovsk, in eastern Ukraine.

The front line is less than 8km (4.9 miles) from Pokrovsk, prompting thousands of residents to flee.

If the city falls, Russian forces will cut off one of the main supply routes in the region. For Ukraine, this would mean the loss of almost the entire Donetsk region.

BBC's Abdujalil Abdurasulov who has been filming Ukrainian soldiers in the area sent this report.



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[jimmyc]

Nah this rhetoric will change once Pokrovsk has gone, it will be de-classified as non strategic once again!

[pessi]

BlackRock isn't going to be very happy 😂

[gtaraya]

Before falling: VITAL
After falling: Not important city
🙄

[AuramiteEX]

Russia is losing so hard they are actually winning.

Meanwhile Ukraine is winning daily as they lose more and more land.

[Joshua-Samarita]

So kursk incursion backfired on Ukraine, not on Russia.

[Itachi_mm]

Soon : Russia *allegedly captured* Pokrovsk a village of *very less significance*

[LayconOsman-phnt]

So BBC is forcefully giving the right news

[lRockUdont]

Wonder how history will look back on Boris Johnson's legacy in the Russo-Ukraine war

[JonLittle-jfuh]

BBC did a 180. What happened to Russia is losing?

[emmettmcintyre]

Russians did not do this to these people, NATO did.

[janburgess]

All because of America, British politics .

[pointgreece]

Russians giving enough time for civilian population to leave.

[eyaklen]

Boris Johnson the man will be remembered forever let Putin take Eastern Ukraine

[drshiddharthadeori]

Curse Zelensky the great comedian and puppet of NATO, not Putin

[ronniaj]

Zelensky keeps winning backwards it’s absolutely incredible 😂😂😂😂

[primepatriotone]

2:64 not what Russians did to you but the Americans and the Brits.

[РафаэльСаркисянц-ът]

НУ да, вы жили спокойно и вам небыло дела до Донбасса все восемь лет. Вот теперь почувствуйте разницу.

[patrickisingizwe]

Really? What happened to game changing weapons?

[avimamaye]

Ask your comedian Zelenski, who is responsible for dozens of Ukrainian who have been dying and for your displacement

[ninovelez]

Ukraine war remains me the Iraq invasion by US under false justification, Russia at least has a point in not wanting the encroachment by NATO (US) on its borders.Few people comment or know about the origin or cause of Russia invasion, which is the continued encirclement of Russia by NATO (US) on ex USSR republics. How people expect for Russia not to defend its border from the continuous encroaching of US? What would US do in a hypothetical situation in which Russia or China start building bases on its borders? Remember the Cuban missile crisis?