Ukrainian military dismisses Russian report that Pokrovsk is captured

Ukraine's military on Tuesday dismissed an earlier report by Moscow that Russian forces had captured the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk.

"The brazen statements of the leadership of the aggressor country about the 'capture' of these settlements by the Russian army do not correspond to reality," Kyiv's General Staff said in a statement, referring also to the cities of Vovchansk and Kupiansk.