By Yuliia Dysa

KYIV, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces were fending off an unusually large Russian mechanised attack inside the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv’s military said on ‍Wednesday, a battle taking place as the U.S. presses for an agreement to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Russian troops have pushed forward in small infantry groups for months looking to capture the former logistics hub as a critical part of Moscow’s campaign to seize the ‌entire industrial Donbas region.

Russia has claimed full control ‌of Pokrovsk. Kyiv maintains that it holds the northern part of the city, where fierce urban battles have raged.

“The Russians used armoured vehicles, cars, and motorcycles. The convoys attempted to break through from the south to the northern part of the city,” Ukrain

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