Ukraine, Zelensky: “Russia deploys 170 thousand soldiers to advance in Donetsk”

Kiev (Ukraine), 31 October (LaPresse) – Russia has deployed around 170,000 troops in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, where it is attempting to capture the stronghold of Pokrovsk in a major offensive to achieve victory on the battlefield. This was stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. ‘There are Russians in Pokrovsk,’ he said at a press conference in Kiev, ‘but they are being destroyed, gradually destroyed, because, well, we have to preserve our personnel.’