In this image made from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, Russian servicemen attend a practice for sabotage operations behind enemy lines at a training ground on an undisclosed location. (AP)

Ukraine’s top military commander said on Saturday his troops were still holding out in the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk, which Moscow said its forces were at last enclosing in a pincer movement after more than a year of fighting.

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 but completely destroyed and depopulated.

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