President Donald Trump's administration is creating detailed plans to send U.S. troops and intelligence officers into Mexico to combat drug cartels, NBC News reported Monday, citing two U.S. officials and two former senior U.S. officials.

Pokrovsk is the latest in a string of grueling urban battles between Ukraine and Russia since the start of the war and bears hallmarks of the bloody fighting for Bakhmut and Avdiivka earlier. Moscow now occupies both cities, which were effectively reduced to rubble.