Russias Defense Ministry said Tuesday that its forces recorded the eastern Ukrainian town of Selydove as part of a wider push to take the neighboring logistics center of Pokrovsk.The capture of the frontline town of Selydove, situated around 18 kilometers (10 miles) southeast of Pokrovsk, is the most recent battleground gain for Russia, which has slowly taken big swaths of territory in the Donetsk region.
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the town of Selidovo in the Donetsk region is completely freed, Russias Defense Ministry said, utilizing the Russian name for the town.The statement came quickly after Moscow stated it recorded the two close-by villages of Bogoyavlenka and Katerynivka, as well as the small town of Girnyk, which are all situated south of Selydove and near the Ukrainian-held industrial town of Kurakhove.Selydove had a population of around 20,000 before Russia introduced the major intrusion of Ukraine almost three years earlier.
The town was home to the only Donetsk area coal mine still under Kyivs control.Russian forces have actually taken 478 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory given that the beginning of October, a record since the very first weeks of the war, according to an AFP analysis of data from the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War.