Gradual progress… Russia announces control over the city of Seversk, eastern Ukraine

Declared Russia Today, Thursday, it took control of the city of Seversk in eastern Putin in a televised speech "We liberated the city of Seversk"President Putin thanked the soldiers.
Siversk is located about 30 kilometers east of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk, which are the last two major cities still under Ukrainian control in Donbass, the industrial and mining region that Russian forces are seeking to occupy.
The city had about 11 thousand people before the war, and it is currently largely destroyed.
Russian forces approached Seversk from 3 sides starting last September, before It penetrates local Ukrainian defenses between November and December, according to military analysts.

The city gradually falls

The site was "Deep State" A military cartographer close to the Ukrainian army reported that the city "Gradually falling into the hands of the enemy"
The site on Thursday identified half of Seversk under Russian control, placing the other half in "Gray area" Disputed between the two armies.
In recent weeks, Russia has announced its control of several key sites on the front, including the Pokrovsk logistics center in the Donetsk region (east) and the towns of Kobyansk and Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region (northeast).
Russian forces are currently engaged in battles to control the city of Mirnograd near Pokrovsk, the Kostyantinivka region, and the strategic site of Hulyaipoli to the south.

The largest Russian advance since General

Putin said on Thursday that he notes good progress on all fronts by the Russian army in Ukraine, and added: "Land liberation is proceeding gradually and steadily"
In November, the Russian army achieved its largest advance on the front in Ukraine in a year, according to an analysis by Agence France-Presse of data issued by the Institute for the Study of War in Washington.
Meanwhile, Ukraine and Russia are negotiating separately with the United States on the American plan to end the war, which Washington put forward more than 3 weeks ago.
Zelensky: Control of the Donetsk region and the Zaporizhya station are still two outstanding issues in the negotiations.

Control of Donetsk And Zaporizhzhya

In Kiev, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Thursday that control over the Donetsk region in the east of the country and the status of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant are still two major outstanding issues in the negotiations to end the war with Russia.
Zelensky told reporters that the territory of the Donetsk region and everything related to it, in addition to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant, are the two issues that we continue to discuss with the United States.

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