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Ukrainian drone Six-hour tank assault, 29 armored vehicles, zero breakthroughs: Russia’s biggest autumn push fails near Volodymyrivka footage shows Russian armored vehicles under attack and engulfed in smoke near Dobropillia on 27 October 2025. Photo: 1st National Guard Corps "Azov"

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Russian Aggression

Six-hour tank assault, 29 armored vehicles, zero breakthroughs: Russia’s biggest autumn push fails near Volodymyrivka

Hoping to exploit poor drone weather, Russian forces launched a two-wave assault near Donetsk Oblast's Dobropillia—and ran straight into mines, bombs, and ambushes.

byYuri Zoria

Ukrainian soldiers raising the Ukrainian flag in the liberated village of Kucheriv Yar, Donetsk Oblast, 22 October, 2025. Screenshot from video.

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Ukrainian paratroopers liberate Donetsk village in daring raid, capturing 50 Russian troops and rescuing trapped civilians

Intercepted Russian orders instructed troops "not to take civilians alive" before retreating.

byBenjamin Murdoch

Soldiers of Ukraine's 79th Air Assault Brigade.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Russia’s Pokrovsk offensive burns through tanks faster than its two factories can build them

Russia is rolling more and more tanks toward Pokrovsk. Can Ukrainian troops destroy them fast enough to save the city?

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Near Pokrovsk, Ukraine discovers chaos favors the bigger army

Every attack exposes flanks to counterattack, and Russia has more troops for the chaos

byDavid Axe

Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. Photo: Syrskyi via Facebook

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Russians encircled north of Donetsk’s Pokrovsk, Syrskyi confirms

Commander-in-Chief announces encirclement of enemy forces that infiltrated Ukrainian defenses over summer months.

byTaisiia Vivdych

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivering his evening address on 26 September, 2025

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Latest news Ukraine

Putin lies when he says Russia is making gains: Zelenskyy

In his nightly address, President Zelenskyy reported thousands of Russian losses near Dobropillia and warned that only stronger international pressure and military aid can curb Moscow’s “virus of war.”

byBenjamin Murdoch

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Frontline report

Frontline report: Ukrainian Army’s Brazilians quietly encircle Russian troops near Pokrovsk — and eliminate them one by one

In the forests and villages outside Pokrovsk, foreign fighters ambushed infiltration groups and raised Ukrainian flags in secured areas.

byReporting from Ukraine

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

The battlefield around Pokrovsk is “a total mess.” And it’s about to get worse.

How many Russians are left in their salient northeast of Pokrovsk, and where are they? No outsiders know for sure.

byDavid Axe

The Ukrainian 43rd Artillery Brigade is fighting east of the Pokrovsk salient.

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Ukraine liberated 160 square km in Donetsk Oblast counteroffensive – Zelenskyy

Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces have liberated seven settlements and inflicted over 2,500 Russian losses in the past few weeks.

byBenjamin Murdoch

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Analysis

Putin needs Pokrovsk to unlock the Donbas—but it’s costing him everything

With 602 tanks lost, the Donbas fortress city is becoming this war's Stalingrad

byJulian McBride

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Ukraine liberates Pankivka village while as Russia deploys 4 brigades to Dobropillia direction

Russian forces lost control of Pankivka settlement to Ukrainian defense units operating under the 1st NGU "Azov" Corps

byMaria Tril

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Russia failed to take Pokrovsk this summer—now it’s sending elite naval units and tanks for round two, ISW says

Ukraine’s forces warn Moscow has shifted tactics and is preparing fresh multi-directional assaults.

byYuri Zoria

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Russia lost a brigade near Dobropillya—more brigades are coming

Russia is rushing additional brigades into the salient northeast of Pokrovsk. Can the Ukrainian 1st Azov Corps sustain its counterattack?

byDavid Axe

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Latest news Ukraine

“Russia’s victorious mood has turned to despair” — Syrskyi on frontline situation

Russia poured over 100,000 soldiers into Donetsk’s Pokrovsk front, a force analysts say could attack a European country. Yet Ukrainian defenders, reinforced by the elite Azov Brigade, halted the advance, regained lost settlements, and pushed the invaders back.

byOlena Mukhina

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ISW: Russia’s advance near Dobropillia is fracturing under Ukrainian counterattacks

Ukrainian troops retook key villages at the base of Russia’s narrow penetration near Dobropillia in Donetsk Oblast.

byYuri Zoria

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Pokrovsk cleared of Russian infiltrators — but Dobropillia front still unstable, Ukrainian military says

Ukrainian forces also cleared villages near Dobropillia, including Hruzke, Rubizhne, Novovodiane, Petrovka, Vesele, and Zolotyi Kolodiaz, dissecting the Russian push.

byYuri Zoria