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Ukraine says still fighting in Pokrovsk, city claimed by Russia

This grab from a handout footage released by the Russian Defence Ministry press service late on December 1, 2025, shows what is said is the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine. [AFP]

Ukrainian forces said Tuesday that fighting was ongoing in Pokrovsk, an important logistics hub in the eastern Donetsk region that Moscow claimed to have captured after months of intensive fighting.

The Russian defence ministry one day earlier posted a video purportedly showing Russian soldiers raising their country's flag over a central square in Pokrovsk.

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