Russia's Defence Ministry said in a brief statement its forces had "liberated" the town. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy dismissed the claim as "disinformation".

Russian military analysts list Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka as the "fortress cities" in Ukraine's east accessible from Chasiv Yar if Moscow's forces can get there, something Kyiv is determined to stop.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that he heard a report from Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who confirmed that Ukrainian defenders are holding the Pokrovsk front and that information about the occupation of Chasiv Yar is "a Russian fake".