Guardian Explains Russia's Claim on Pokrovsk 🇷🇺

The Guardian’s defence and security editor, Dan Sabbagh, explains the current situation in Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region.
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On 1 December the Russian defence ministry published a series of videos that showed Russian soldiers walking around the city centre waving their flags, and claimed they had taken over the entire zone. Ukraine denied this, saying its forces still controlled the northern zone

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