Ukraine's top commander orders defences bolstered in east after Vuhledar falls

Russian troops are steadily inching forward in different sectors in eastern Ukraine despite Kyiv's surprise incursion into Russia's western Kursk region in August that it was hoped would slow the advances. Syrskyi said on social media he was working on "one of the hottest front sectors" with the 25th Sicheslav Airborne Brigade. He gave no details on the exact location but the brigade operates in the Pokrovsk front, an area of intensified Russian assaults.