President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Russia has deployed 170,000 troops in Donetsk in a major push. Photo: AP PHOTO

Ukraine's top military commander says his troops are still holding out in the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk which Russia says its forces are at last enclosing in a pincer movement after more than a year of fighting.

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Russia has been trying to capture Pokrovsk, dubbed "the gateway to Donetsk," since mid-2024 in its campaign to control the entirety of Donetsk, a Ukrainian province it claims to have annexed.

The city, home to 70,000 people before the war, has been all

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