Russia Close to Its Biggest Capture of a Ukrainian City Since 2023 NYT | Top Stories By: Kim Barker， Marc Santora， Evelina Riabenko and Michael Schwirtz 6 November 2025 at 18:32 The Kremlin is focusing its fire on Pokrovsk, a gateway to the Donetsk region, which Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, has long coveted. © Finbarr O'Reilly for The New York TimesIn September, a Ukrainian soldier ran past the site where a Russian glide bomb exploded minutes earlier, damaging buildings in the area near the embattled city of Pokrovsk.
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