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“The forces of the Vostok (East) military group liberated the city of Krasnoarmeisk (Russian name for Pokrovsk) and continue to annihilate enemy units in Dimitrov (Mirnograd, satellite city of Pokrovsk),” he noted. Valeri Guerásimov during a visit by Putin to the military headquarters of the Russian troops fighting in Ukraine, broadcast on public television.
The Russian autocrat, dressed in military uniform, thanked the military for capturing Pokrovsk, city that its soldiers were trying to surrender since mid-2024and highlighted the importance of this sector of the Ukrainian front since “it will allow the solution of all the main missions set out from the beginning when we began the special military operation.”
The fall of Pokrovsk, if confirmed, would give Moscow a platform to advance north towards the two largest cities remaining under Ukrainian control in the Donetsk region: Kramatorsk y Sloviansk. It would be Russia’s most important victory since the conquest of Adiivka early last year.
kyiv has not reacted to Putin’s words, but has insisted that in recent weeks its forces have been containing Russian infiltration groups in the north of a city that had a pre-war population of more than 60,000 people and is located close to the only source of coking coal minerals from Ukraine. Russian channels are sharing videos of soldiers supposedly in the center of Pokrovsk.
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After four months of intense urban fighting, the Russian invasion army captured the center of #Pokrovsk.
It now has a presence in all areas of the city, which the Kremlin yesterday declared as “liberated”. The partial siege of the town lasted more than one year. pic.twitter.com/E5WCQg4kJc— Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 (@JulianRoepcke) December 2, 2025
The alleged capture of the city comes as the United States accelerates efforts to reach a peace deal for Ukraine. Putin is scheduled to meet with the US president’s special envoy in the Kremlin on Tuesday afternoon Donald Trump, Steve Witkoffand his son-in-law, Jared Kushnerto discuss a possible draft of the peace plan after his meeting with the Ukrainian delegation.
From the Ukrainian Center for the Fight against Disinformation they have warned that the propaganda proclamations of the head of the Kremlin They are aimed “exclusively for the Western audience” and to strengthen their position at the negotiating table. The head of this body has stressed that Vovchansk, another city that Russia claims to have captured, remains under the control of Ukrainian forces, although he has not commented on Pokrovsk.
The commander of the Center military group, Valeri Solodchuk, explained to Putin that Russian troops are now trying to eliminate the enemy soldiers who are still in Pokrovsk and Mirnogradits satellite city.
Russia claims its forces have seized control of the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk, presenting it as a major advance on the Ukrainian front. pic.twitter.com/EAwZsAD0y0
— Polymarket Intel (@PolymarketIntel) December 2, 2025
Andrei Ivanáev, commander of the Eastern military group, commented on the situation in other areas of the front. In Zaporiya, where the Russian Army has made significant advances in recent weeks, Russian troops reached the Gaichur River and They began the battle for Huliaipolean important Ukrainian stronghold in this region.
According to the Ukrainian platform DeepState, Russia conquered 505 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory in November. Precisely 40% of the progress has been recorded in the Zaporizhia region. During November, Putin’s forces had only managed to occupy 267 square kilometers.