Both Ukrainian and Russian forces have made recent tactical gains in the Pokrovsk area, the analysts highlighted. Geolocated videos published on Nov. 1 showed that Russian forces recently advanced into the southeastern part of Pokrovsk.

EADaily, November 3rd, 2025. Kiev has already actually written off the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine blocked in Kupyansk and Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk). There are no more personnel left among the doomed from among the special forces and national battalions.

Ukrainian military authorities insist their forces are holding out in the frontline eastern city of Pokrovsk amid fierce fighting against an assembled for of some 170,000 Russian troops.

Pokrovsk was dubbed a "fortress" settlement, key to Ukrainian lines in the east and connected to other cities forming the backbone of Ukraine's defense in the east. Russia kicked off a push to take Pokrovsk in the summer of 2024.

There are still pockets of Ukrainian resistance, and in the north there are "several Russian soldiers." This was stated in the social network X by the military analyst of the German newspaper Bild Julian Repke.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that the situation in Pokrovsk, where Russian forces are on the offensive, is difficult, with 170,000 Russian troops concentrated in the area. Undoubtedly,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has received reports from military commanders on the situation at the front, noting that Ukrainian forces have achieved results in destroying Russian troops in the Pokrovsk sector.