Putin’s desperate ‘last roll of the dice’ for besieged city before troops face brutal -30C Ukrainian winter in trenches

VLADIMIR Putin’s army has just weeks to clinch a “symbolic” victory in a Ukrainian key city – or face a killer winter in the trenches. The tyrant has thrown closing in on 200,000 troops into his stalling meatgrinder in an ongoing 18-month attempt to capture Pokrovsk. Intelligence suggests at least 135,000 Russian soldiers have been…