Why is Russia ratcheting up attacks to take full control of Pokrovsk? | DW News

Ukraine has deployed special forces to the embattled city of Pokrovsk, in an effort to push back a Russian assault involving thousands of troops. Russia has been trying to take the Ukrainian city for more than a year.
Russia's military has made the front-line city a primary objective due to its location at the center of major roads and railways. Russia is pushing to capture as much of the eastern Donbas region as it can before agreeing to any peace deal. Russian officials say Pokrovsk is about to fall to Russia. Yet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denied that his troops are surrounded.

DW speaks to former NATO Deputy Commander for Europe (from 2011 - 2014) Richard Shirreff on why he believes Europe is not doing 'what needs to be done' for Ukraine to win its war against Russia

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Post from DW News on November 03, 2025

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