A man rides a bicycle along a road past a sign indicating the town of Pokrovsk as smoke rises in the background, outside the town of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, on September 20, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. - Russian forces are now only 10 kilometres (six miles) away from the city of Pokrovsk, a now-deserted city, once home to 60,000, that Moscow has been trying to capture for months. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)