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Russia asserted Saturday that its troops and separatist fighters had captured a key railway junction in eastern Ukraine, the second small city to fall to Moscow s forces this week as they fought to seize all of the country s contested Donbas region.
While claiming military progress in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, Russian President Vladimir Putin is insisting that European nations halt sanctions on his country and weapons shipments to Ukraine.