https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/world/europe/ukraine-war-pokrovsk-frontline.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE8.d74u.StUsjUqEMudA&smid=url-share
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After more than a year of fighting, Pokrovsk, a railroad hub in the Donetsk region, has been turned largely into rubble, its prewar population of 60,000 now reduced to fewer than 1,300 residents. Ukrainian soldiers defending the city report intense combat. Nearly one-third of all the battles along the front line, which stretches almost 750 miles, are in Pokrovsk, and half of Russia's attacks with deadly glide bombs are focused on the city,.."