Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 172 clashes with Russian troops over the past day, with 55 of them occurring on the Pokrovsk front. Heightened enemy activity was also observed in the Kupiansk, Lyman,

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv is working with its partners in the "Coalition of the Willing" to draw up a peace plan, including a ceasefire, to end the Russian war against Ukraine in a similar vein to U.S. President Donald Trump's 20-point framework for Gaza.

There have been 168 combat engagements on the front today, with Russian forces conducting 57 attempts to break through Ukrainian Defense Forces’ lines in the Pokrovsk sector, suffering significant losses.

Ukrainian forces are struggling to fend off intensifying Russian advances on the eastern city of Pokrovsk, the military and open-source analysts said on Wednesday.

Russia is trying "to inflict as much damage as possible on ordinary life," said Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky.