The Donbas city of Pokrovsk is at the centre of intensifying fighting as Russia tries to take it, one year down the line. If Pokrovsk is key, it’s because taking it means controlling the entire Donbas region. After over three years of conflict, “we’re in one of those periods where nothing appears to be happening” FRANCE 24’s Angela Diffley tells us because of slow European aid and reluctance from the US to help Ukraine.


