Staff at a field hospital in the Pokrovsk area in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region say they had been forced to relocate after the Russian troops' advance.

"The frontline has moved by eight to ten kilometres, for sure, over the past month. Our stab point has relocated, how long we will stay here, it is not clear." Sergiy, a doctor at the of 14th Chervona Kalyna brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine said.

The Pokrovsk front is the most active in the Russian war against Ukraine, with 111,000 Russian soldiers amassed there for the summer offensive, according to Ukrainian top military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi.

For months, Ukraine has picked off Russian soldiers by the thousand around the frontline city of Pokrovsk, using small drones armed with bombs to tie down a numerically superior force.

Now though, Russian troops are creeping forward in a summer offensive that has probed weak spots in Ukraine’s defences and last week saw some Russian soldiers enter the city for the first time, according to footage on Ukrainian and Russian Telegram channels and geolocated by Reuters.

Fierce fighting in the area has kept doctors and medics working without a break.

Bohdan, an anaestologist with the Chervona Kalyna brigade said he has stopped counting after working 16 or 17 days in a row.

But this is nothing compared to ninety days some soldiers spend on rotation on the contact line, said Sergiy who has not left the stabilisation point for the past 36 day

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SHOWS: NEAR POKROVSK, DONETSK REGION, UKRAINE (JULY 31, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. VARIOUS DOCTORS AND MEDICS OF THE 14TH CHERVONA KALYNA BRIGADE OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF UKRAINE TREATING WOUNDED SOLDIER

2. VARIOUS OF BOHDAN (SURNAME NOT GIVEN), ANAESTHESIOLOGIST AND TEAM OF MEDICS OF 14TH CHERVONA KALYNA BRIGADE OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF UKRAINE TREATINGTREATING WOUNDED SOLDIER

3. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) BOHDAN (SURNAME NOT GIVEN), ANAESTHESIOLOGIST OF 14TH CHERVONA KALYNA BRIGADE OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF UKRAINE, SAYING:

"FPV drones make it difficult for us to bring wounded here, prevent us from transporting the wounded further away. Civilians, when they are on the move, they are targeted by the drones, too. Even if civilians display white ribbons on their cars, it doesn't make a difference. A woman that has been admitted to this stab point was travelling in a car, she put out her hand holding handbag to signal that there were civilians in the car. They (Russians) aimed at this handbag on purpose. Her hand that she was holding the handbag in thinking they would not shoot at her, was very seriously injured"

4. SOLDIER WALKING OUT OF SURGERY ROOM

5. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) BOHDAN (SURNAME NOT GIVEN), ANAESTHESIOLOGIST OF 14TH CHERVONA KALYNA BRIGADE OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF UKRAINE, SAYING:

"We have been here 16, may be 17 days. I stopped counting. Non-stop."

6. VARIOUS OF SERGIY (SURNAME NOT GIVEN) NOSE AND THROAT DOCTOR OF 14TH CHERVONA KALYNA BRIGADE OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF UKRAINE EXAMINING SOLDIER FOR EAR DAMAGE AFTER EXPLOSION

7. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) SERGIY (SURNAME NOT GIVEN) NOSE AND THROAT DOCTOR OF 14TH CHERVONA KALYNA BRIGADE OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF UKRAINE SAYING:

"The frontline has moved by eight to ten kilometres, for sure, over the past month. Our stab point has relocated, how long we will stay here, it is not clear."

8. SHELF WITH SCISSORS

9. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) SERGIY (SURNAME NOT GIVEN) NOSE AND THROAT DOCTOR OF 14TH CHERVONA KALYNA BRIGADE OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF UKRAINE SAYING:

"When it is green and everything is in bloom it is possible for military vehicles to move around, to hide from drones. That is one reason why the frontline has moved. But the first and main reason is that Russians have accumulated huge numbers of human resources in the Pokrovsk area, as far as I know. That is why the frontline moves."

10. SOLDIERS' ARMS

11. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) SERGIY (SURNAME NOT GIVEN) NOSE AND THROAT DOCTOR OF 14TH CHERVONA KALYNA BRIGADE OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF UKRAINE SAYING:

"Thirty six days. Without a day off. As a matter of fact it is not that much. People on the frontline stay there for 90 days. That's why I do not boast about my 36 days at the stabilisation point. I have time to sleep, that's superb."

12. VARIOUS DOCTORS AND MEDICS TREATING PATIENT