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Russia seized 12 eastern Ukraine villages so far in February: army chief
Valery Gerasimov reported advances toward Sloviansk and expanding security zones near Ukraine's northeastern border amid ongoing conflict, with 12 villages seized in two weeks.
- On Sunday, Valery Gerasimov visited Moscow's troops and said Kremlin forces seized a dozen eastern villages in February, the defence ministry reported.
- Valery Gerasimov said Russia is expanding a security zone in Sumy and Kharkiv regions as Russian leader Vladimir Putin demands Kyiv withdraw from Donetsk for any deal.
- Gerasimov said troops were moving toward Sloviansk, with Moscow's forces around 15 kilometres from the city, and he will discuss further actions in the Dnipropetrovsk direction.
- Moscow's broader territorial claims encompass Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, but the pace of Moscow's advance picked up in the autumn and Russia has not seized Donetsk in four years.
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The pace of Moscow's advance accelerated in the fall, but Russia failed to reach its goal of taking over the Donetsk region in four years of war.
Russia’s army chief claims capture of 12 villages in eastern Ukraine
MOSCOW, Feb 15 — Russia’s army chief Valery Gerasimov visited Moscow’s troops in Ukraine and said the Kremlin’s forces seized a dozen eastern villages in February, the defence ministry said Sunday.Gerasimov visit comes days before US-mediated talks with Kyiv in Geneva on ending almost four years of war and ahead of the fourth anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale offensive against Ukraine.“In two weeks of February, despite severe winter conditions,…
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