Servicemen of the National Police Special Purpose Battalion carry a shell for a howitzer as they prepare to fire towards Russian troops at a position in a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk region. (REUTERS)

Russia’s offensive inside Pokrovsk has accelerated through November, with its forces now claiming control over more than 75 per cent of the city, according to Russian General Valery Gerasimov’s briefing to President Vladimir Putin . Ukrainian defenders maintain that they are still preventing Russian troops from capturing additional ground in the city’s northern areas, stressing that their units are holding the defensive line and stopping further advances.

The battle for Pokrovsk has been unfolding for well over a year. What began as

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