Russia Claims Major Gains In Ukraine's Myrnohrad, Controls 30% Of Buildings: Report

Last Updated:December 09, 2025, 17:06 IST

Russia top Army General said its forces are advancing in Ukraine, targeting Myrnohrad as ordered by Putin. Ukraine denies Pokrovsk has fallen and vows not to cede territory.

Russian top general Valery Gerasimov said President Vladimir Putin had ordered the defeat of Ukrainian forces in Myrnohrad, a town with a pre-war population of some 46,000 people to the east of Pokrovsk.

Russian top general Valery Gerasimov on Tuesday said their forces were advancing along the front line in Ukraine and were targeting surrounded Ukrainian troops in the town of Myrnohrad.

Reuters quoted Gerasimov saying President Vladimir Putin had ordered the defeat of Ukrainian forces in Myrnohrad, a town with a pre-war population of some 46,000 people to the east of Pokrovsk.

Speaking at a command post meeting with officers of the Centre Grouping which is fighting in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, he said Russia has taken control of more than 30% of Myrnohrad’s buildings.

Meanwhile, Ukraine has repeatedly rejected Russian claims that Pokrovsk has fallen and said its forces continue to hold part of the city and are fighting back in Myrnohrad.

According to Reuters, Russia currently controls 19.2% of Ukraine, including Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, Luhansk, more than 80% of Donetsk, about 75% of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, and slivers of the Kharkiv, Sumy, Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

Last week, Putin vowed to take full control of Donbas region by force if Ukraine doesn’t withdraw. “Either we liberate these territories by force of arms, or Ukrainian troops leave these territories," he said in an interview with India Today before his visit to India.

In response to Putin’s demands, Ukraine has said it will not gift its territory to Russia that Moscow failed to win in the battle. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said Moscow should not be rewarded for a war it started.

Russia had sent its troops into Ukraine in February 2022 after eight years of fighting between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian troops in the Donbas, which is made up of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

US President Donald Trump in his 28-point peace plan had proposed Ukraine to surrender the Donbas region. The plan included recognising Moscow-annexed Crimea and occupied eastern Ukraine as “de-facto" Russian, also requiring Kyiv to pull out from parts of the Donetsk region that it still controls, all clear red lines for Ukraine.

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