About 90% of Toretsk’s 30,000 people are said to have fled
PUBLISHED : 7 Feb 2025 at 21: 45
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The industrial hub of Toretsk in the eastern Donetsk region had been in the Kremlin’s sights for months. (Photo: AFP)
KYIV – Russia said Friday its forces had seized the mining town of Toretsk in east Ukraine after months of heavy fighting, the biggest town Moscow claims to have taken in recent months.
Russian forces have been grinding forward on the battlefield for over a year, capturing dozens of mostly abandoned towns and villages despite heavy material and human losses.
Kyiv denied Russia had full control of industrial hub.
But military analysts say that if Russia took the city it would help would help Moscow further obstruct Ukrainian military supply routes across the sprawling front line.
“As a result of active offensive operations… the city of Dzerzhinsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic was liberated,” Moscow’s defence ministry said, using a Russian name for the town and the region.
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