Ukrainian forces are struggling to fend off intensifying Russian advances on the eastern city of Pokrovsk, the military and open-source analysts said on Wednesday.Moscow's troops have in recent weeks closed in on the key logistics hub after more than a year of grinding advances,

On the South Slobozhanshchyna front, Ukrainian forces repelled five Russian attacks near the settlements of Vovchansk and Kamianka. On the Kupiansk front, 15 Russian attacks occurred. Ukrainian defenders repelled Russian assaults near the settlements of Pishchane,

Two people were killed and at least 17 others were injured, including six children, as a result of overnight Russian missile and drone attacks on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya.

President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed the situation at the front and the planning of long-range operations with the Commander-in-Chief and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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 President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia had tested a Poseidon nuclear-capable super torpedo and that it had been a “great success”. US and Russian officials have both described Poseidon as a new category of retaliatory weapon, capable of triggering radioactive ocean swells to render coastal cities uninhabitable.

Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 172 clashes with Russian troops over the past day, with 55 of them occurring on the Pokrovsk front. Heightened enemy activity was also observed in the Kupiansk, Lyman,

Russian forces have managed to break through to the outskirts of Myrnohrad in the Pokrovsk direction. Heavy street fighting is currently ongoing, stated the spokesman for the East group of forces, Hryhorii Shapoval.