{"id":298424,"date":"2025-11-24T00:04:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/ukraine-frontline-report-bitter-fighting-as-russian-forces-surround-key-cities-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T00:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:04:52","slug":"ukraine-frontline-report-bitter-fighting-as-russian-forces-surround-key-cities-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/ukraine-frontline-report-bitter-fighting-as-russian-forces-surround-key-cities-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine frontline report &#8211; bitter fighting as Russian forces surround key cities | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/nsqM8ihqMXo\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Ukraine frontline report - bitter fighting as Russian forces surround key cities | BBC News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nsqM8ihqMXo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Russia is pushing hard on the battlefield in eastern Ukraine as\u00a0negotiations for a peace deal take place in Geneva, .  Its forces are believed to have surrounded the key strategic cities of Pokrovsk and nearby Myrnohrad in the Donetsk region.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe cities are strategically important.\u00a0 If they fall it will open the way for Russian forces to advance north and west. \u00a0 Moscow says its forces have cut off Ukraine troops and there is street fighting in central areas.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIt comes as US diplomats meet Ukrainian officials in Geneva to discuss Washington\u2019s 28-point peace plan to end the war.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nClive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Abdujalil Abdurusalov in eastern Ukraine, Jonathan Beale in Kyiv and Steven Rosenberg in Moscow.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSubscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is pushing hard on the battlefield in eastern Ukraine as\u00a0negotiations for a peace deal take place in Geneva, . Its forces are believed to have surrounded the key strategic cities of Pokrovsk and nearby Myrnohrad in the Donetsk region. \u00a0 The cities are strategically important.\u00a0 If they fall it will open the way for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128810],"tags":[132148,131205,128836],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-298424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbc-news","tag-hard","tag-pushing","tag-russia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ukraine frontline report - bitter fighting as Russian forces surround key cities | BBC News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Ukraine frontline report - bitter fighting as Russian forces surround key cities | BBC News for free, here on News ISC. 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