Putin said Svyatohirsk had fallen. A general walked across its bridge on camera days later. Four ISW assessments, a Kyiv Post fact check, Reuters and CIT supply every step of the test that undid the claim, in the week U.S. envoys sat with Putin.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted of victory in the symbolically important monastery town in the north of Donetsk Oblast, but was quickly exposed.