Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had warned on Thursday that Pokrovsk and other nearby towns in the Donetsk region were “facing the most intense Russian assaults”. “Priority supplies—everything that is needed—are being sent there,” Zelensky said on X. That same day, authorities told people to start evacuating.

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