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Putin hails claimed capture of strategic Donetsk city Kostyantynivka
Yahoo • • general
Key Points:
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that President Vladimir Putin celebrated the claimed capture of Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine by Russian forces.
- Putin described the industrial city’s capture as achieved at great cost to Ukrainian defenders.
- Ukraine has not yet commented on the claims, though its military acknowledged ongoing heavy fighting and a difficult situation in the heavily damaged city.
- Capturing Kostyantynivka would bring Russia closer to controlling the entire Donbass region, leaving only Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, and Druzhkivka under Ukrainian control in Donetsk.
