Here is how things stand on Tuesday, November 4:

Fighting

Russia said on Monday that its troops had advanced in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk , an important transport and logistics hub that they have been trying to capture for more than a year, but Ukraine said its forces were holding on.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters that Pokrovsk remained under severe pressure, though Russian troops had made no gains in the past day.

He also said that Russia was massing troops by the nearby town of Dobropillia, where Kyiv’s forces advanced earlier this year in a successful counteroffensive. He described the situation in Dobropillia as complicated.

Ukraine’s 7th Rapid Response Corps said that Ukrainian forces had thwarted a Russian attempt to cut off a supply route

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