Russian overnight deadly missile and drone strikes on Ukraine continue as Kyiv says it has deployed special forces to defend Pokrovsk, a key city in the east.

Ukrainian forces hit an important fuel pipeline in the Moscow region that supplies the Russian army, Ukraine's military intelligence said Saturday, as Russia kept up a sustained campaign of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. The operation was carried out late Friday, according to a statement on the Telegram messaging channel. The agency, which is known by its acronym HUR, described it as a “serious blow” to Russia’s military logistics.

Ukraine's top military commander said on Saturday his troops were still holding out in the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk, which Moscow said its forces were at last enclosing in a pincer movement after more than a year of fighting. Russia has been trying to capture Pokrovsk, dubbed "the gateway…

Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine have killed at least five people and injured tens of others, including children, as Russian troops step up assaults around the country’s strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk.