Russia Says It Seized Key Eastern Stronghold Pokrovsk; Ukraine Denies Claim

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russian troops have captured Pokrovsk, a heavily contested, strategically important city that Ukrainian forces had held for nearly two years. The Kremlin announced the purported capture in a transcript published on Dec. 1, which detailed Putin’s being briefed by Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. In his report, dated Nov. 30, Gerasimov said that Russian forces had gained full control of Pokrovsk on the eastern Donbas front as well as Vovchansk on the northeastern frontline. That same evening, Russia’s Defense Ministry released a video that appears to show soldiers from the Central Group of Forces displaying a Russian flag in Pokrovsk’s city center—an area that has been under Russian control for some time, according to an interactive map from the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War.......

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Source: The Epoch Times

Posted on 12-02-2025 23:06

Category: Israel