INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia's military said Friday that it captured three more villages in eastern Ukraine, where its forces continue to advance even as Kyiv
mounts a major cross-border incursion into Russian territory.The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces gained control of towns and
its name with a larger city in the region that is under Ukrainian control.Moscow claims to have taken control of dozens of Ukrainian towns
military appears to be focusing its firepower on the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk, where Ukraine says the fighting is intense and
"difficult.""The most difficult situation remains in the area of Pokrovsk
The enemy is trying to break through the defenses of our troops," Ukraine's top military commander Oleksandr Syrsky said Friday.He also
said Kyiv's troops were continuing to press forward in Russia's southwestern Kursk region, where they claimed earlier this week to have
taken control of 100 towns and villages near the border.
