Russian maps show Pokrovsk under Moscow's control and Ukrainian troops encircled in neighbouring Myrnohrad. Ukrainian maps show Pokrovsk as a grey zone under no side's control and Myrnohrad as not being fully surrounded.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he's directed Driscoll to meet with the Ukrainians and White House special envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Russian attacks have killed four people and wounded more than a dozen in Balakliya and Velykyi Burluk in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. Two people have also been killed and many wounded in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

The Russian attack followed talks between U.S. and Ukraine representatives in Geneva on Sunday about a U.S.-Russia brokered peace plan.

A detachment of ships from the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet conducted a large-scale naval exercise in the Indian Ocean, involving combat maneuvers, live artillery fire, and coordinated anti-submarine operations.