Russia's Defence Ministry claims a significant breakthrough by capturing the mining town of Toretsk in Donetsk. Ukrainian officials have yet to respond as the war enters its fourth year. The capture coincides with uncertainties surrounding U.

The Ukrainian defenders have eliminated a Russian assault group that broke into the territory of an enterprise in Toretsk, Donetsk region, and established a position within the buildings. — Ukrinform.

Russia's Defence Ministry said on Friday that its forces had taken control of the strategic coal-mining city of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine, but Ukraine's military denied the city had been captured and reported heavy fighting in and around it.

Russia's Defence Ministry announces the capture of Toretsk, a key coal-mining city in eastern Ukraine. The capture could aid Russian forces in complicating logistics for the Ukrainian military. However,

Russian forces have taken control of the city of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine, Russia's Defence Ministry said on Friday. Reuters could not independently confirm the battlefield report. Russia calls the city by its Soviet-era name of Dzerzhynsk and says Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region is now part of Russia,

Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed on Friday that its forces had captured the mining town of Toretsk in their latest breakthrough in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, where Ukrainian defences are creaking.