After two years of hard fighting, Russian forces finally captured the strategic city of Wohledhar in eastern Ukraine.
According to Reuters, Ukrainian forces withdrew from this city on Wednesday, October 2.
Russian officials announced that the capture of this city could be an important step for the annexation of the entire Donetsk region to Russian territory.
Russian Telegram channels published videos of Russian soldiers waving the tricolor flag over buildings in the city.
The city of Wohledhar had a population of more than 14 thousand before the war, which is now destroyed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the targetThe main occupation of the entire Donbas region and Donetsk provincesLuhansk is in the southeast of Ukraine.
Russia currently occupies nearly 80% of Donbass.
