Pokrovsk, a city formerly home to around 60,000 in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, is ground zero for Russia’s latest offensive in Moscow’s nearly three-year-old invasion of its neighbor.

Despite the Kremlin’s forces using every trick to try and break through Ukrainian defenses , Kyiv is grimly holding on to the logistically important town, Armed Forces of Ukraine commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi exclusively told The Post Sunday.

“The situation on the front line is really a tense one, where the enemy is carrying out a strategic offensive operation,’” he said. “They’ve collected most of the forces, creating domination in an attempt to breach our defense line … to capture the area.”

Despite Russian state TV and social media propagandists insising that Pokrovsk has fallen and Ukr

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