The most intensive battles in Ukraine are now taking place in the east, where Russian forces are pressing on the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove fronts in Donetsk region and Kupiansk in the east of the Kharkiv region, Ukraine’s top commander said on Thursday.
Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Facebook that Moscow’s troops were also locked in street fighting in the town of Vovchansk and on the defensive near Lyptsi, two key battlegrounds in Kharkiv region’s north where Russia has opened a new front this month.