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Russia pushes on key Ukraine city of Pokrovsk while Kyiv's Kursk incursion slows

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Russian forces are just a few kilometres from the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk .

It is an essential supply and reinforcement point for Ukraine 's troops on the eastern front line.

The city is next to a key railway station and major roads, home to a railway station.

Critics in Kyiv fear that the country's military has made a serious miscalculation.

The question is whether they will justify the potential losses on Ukraine 's eastern frontline. " One of the objectives of the offensive operation in the Kursk direction was to divert significant enemy forces from other directions, primarily from the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove directions,” Gen Syrskyi said on Tuesday . But that objective appears to have failed. Russian forces have not been redeployed from the Pokrovsk frontline. On the contrary they’ve been strengthened by additional troops and their advance has quickened..

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79

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English

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