Politics Russia claims to have captured town in eastern Ukraine
According to the Russian army, it has captured the eastern Ukrainian mining town of Torezk after more than four months of heavy fighting.
07.02.2025, 16:42
SDA
The Ministry of Defense in Moscow made a corresponding announcement on Telegram, whereby the authority referred to the city by the name Dzerzhinsk, which dates back to Soviet times.
Felix Dzerzhinsky (Feliks Dzierzynsky) was the first head of the Soviet secret service. Torezk is located in the Donetsk region and had over 30,000 inhabitants before the war. Only a few dozen are said to have survived in the ruins.
Ukraine assumed the fall of Torezk
Kiev did not initially confirm the loss. The General Staff's morning report only mentioned a dozen or so Russian attacks in the Torezk area. However, Ukrainian military observers had already been marking only the outskirts of the city as contested for some time and assumed that the city would soon fall.
Ukraine has been defending itself against a Russian invasion for almost three years. Moscow is demanding that Kiev cede large areas in the east and south of the Eastern European country.
