Russian-backed official: Half of Donetsk under Moscow control, advance difficult

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Russian-backed official: Half of Donetsk under Moscow control, advance difficult
Russian forces struggle to fully take control over the city of Donetsk, Ukraine.
By REUTERS
Published: DECEMBER 13, 2022

Advancing in some areas of the Donetsk region is difficult, the top Moscow-installed official in the occupied parts of the territory in eastern Ukraine said on Tuesday, adding that more than half was under Russian control.

The so-called Donetsk People's Republic is one of four regions in Ukraine which Moscow proclaimed as its own in September in an exercise Ukraine and its allies denounced as a "sham," coercive referendum.

"A little more than 50% of the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic has been liberated," Denis Pushilin, Russian-installed administrator of the portion controlled by Moscow, told Russian state-owned news agency RIA.

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