MOSCOW: Russia on Saturday claimed the capture of another village in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region amid heavy fighting as Moscow's forces advance towards the city of Pokrovsk.
The defence ministry said Russian troops "liberated" the village of Lozuvatske, about 24 kilometres east of Pokrovsk and near the Russian-occupied town of Ocheretnye.
Kyiv's defence ministry said early Saturday that Ukrainian forces had halted 37 Russian attacks in the Pokrovsk area. The hardest fighting was near the village of Novooleksandrivka, it said. Russian aerial bombing of the Donetsk region hit the town of Myrnograd close to Pokrovsk and the town of Kurakhove further south. — AFP
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