Ukrainian forces hit an important fuel pipeline in the Moscow region that supplies the Russian army, Ukraine’s military intelligence said Saturday, a claim that came amid a sustained Russian campaign of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that fierce fighting is ongoing in Pokrovsk and nearby areas, with Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups operating there and logistics proving difficult,

DeepState has reported that Russian forces are continuing to infiltrate Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, gradually increasing their infantry presence and expanding sabotage and reconnaissance activities within the city.

Russian forces are close to taking the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after a pincer movement almost totally encircled it while small groups of highly mobile Russian units penetrated the city, according to Russian military bloggers.

On a drone battlefield, supply units must train for survivability and move like maneuver formations, an Army officer argues.

The invaders are moving forward in the city of Pokrovsk, as well as near Chervonyi Lyman (Pokrovsk sector) and Pryvillia (Oleksandrivka sector). DeepState described the situation in Pokrovsk as “on the verge of critical and continuing to deteriorate.

Russia has deployed around 170,000 troops in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region where they are trying to capture the stronghold of Pokrovsk in a major push for a battlefield

Devastated by years of Russian attacks, the nine-storey buildings that dot the skyline of Kupiansk in northeast Ukraine now "stand like black candles", local Vitaly Bardas recalled.

A Russian strike on a children’s hospital in southern Ukraine has wounded at least nine people, authorities have said, shortly after Kyiv targeted Russian energy sites with drones.

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Wednesday that Russian troops have surrounded Ukrainian forces in two key eastern cities of Ukraine and offered to negotiate a deal for their surrender. Ukrainian military officials vigorously denied the claim.