Cities, Regions & Frontlines – Page 5

Russians mercilessly attacked Kryvyi Rih with ballistic missiles - there are dead and wounded. At least four people are known to have died in the attack and three were wounded Residential buildings and an educational institution were damaged. Video: Office of the President of Ukraine

Pokrovsk... It's very hard to see the city like this.

Operators of the 17th Special Purpose Center “ECHO17,” working in coordination with bomber drone crews of the 81st Air Assault Brigade, engaged infiltrated Russian infantry near Zakitne on the Siversk axis. The strikes targeted enemy forces after Russian troops crossed the Siverskyi Donets River.

Operators of the 1st Separate Center of the Unmanned Systems Forces carried out mid-range strikes against enemy targets on temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine. In Donetsk Oblast, a command post and a deployment site of special forces from Russia’s 14th GRU Brigade, as well as warehouses and a military vehicle repair base, were hit. Additionally, a Nebo radar station and a deployment area of high-speed landing craft of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet were struck in temporarily occupied Crimea.

This is archived footage from a special operation conducted in late October 2025 on the Pokrovsk axis by fighters of the Black Winter Group, part of Tymur’s Special Unit of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR). During the mission, several special forces groups were airlifted by Black Hawk helicopters and landed on the western outskirts of Pokrovsk, dispersing across the industrial zone. “We managed to gain precious time so that the main units of the Armed Forces could approach the city with reinforcements. After that, everyone stopped saying the city had been taken,” said HUR Chief Kyrylo Budanov, commenting on the operation.