By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-01 17:34:03 | Updated at 2025-01-04 09:53:30
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Kurakhovo Has Fallen: On the Last Day of the Year, Russian Forces Conquer Key Donetsk Logistics Hub With the Last Ukrainian Coking Coal Plant
Gateway Pundit ^ | Jan. 1, 2025 | by Paul Serran
Posted on 01/01/2025 9:19:16 AM PST by Kazan
2024 ended with a BANG in the Donetsk region, disputed by Russia and Ukraine in some of the largest battles since WW2.
On the last day of December, the Russian 5th brigade raised their flag over the Kurakhovo industrial zone, last bastion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the city.
They really ruined the whole New Year for the Ukrainians.
Three factories in the Kurakhovo industrial zone are now under Moscow control.
Kurakhovo was the lynchpin of Ukrainian defenses in the region, and its fall opens the way for the Russian troops to Pokrovsk, a key logistical hub for Kiev.
The loss of Kurakhovo hurts Kiev from the economic standpoint as well, since the local coal mining area was the only place under Ukrainian control where coking coal was still being produced.
The loss of the coal plant kneecaps Ukraine’s steel production, and therefore its military industries.
Military sources report that these factories were the last fortified area of the Ukrainian defenders, completing the conquest of the town.
All that remains is to wait for an official report from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Kurakhovo, besides being a key logistics hub, was the last Ukrainian position for firing artillery shells towards Donetsk city. The 10-year siege against the breakaway regional capital is over.
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KEYWORDS: failedproxywar; followthemoney; ukraine
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1 posted on 01/01/2025 9:19:16 AM PST by Kazan
To: Kazan
where coking coal was still being produced.
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Good news
Ukrainian green house gas emissions continue to decline as smog increases in Russian cities
- Western media and Zeepers
2 posted on 01/01/2025 9:24:31 AM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
To: janetjanet998
--- "Ukrainian green house gas emissions continue to decline as smog increases in Russian cities"
Worthy of Monty Python or perhaps Orwell and "chocolate." Kudos! :)
To: Kazan
And yet the Neocon nutters try to tell us that Russia has suffered 10 times the casualties as the Ukrainian. Eastern Ukraine looks like the Moon thanks to total Russian artillery dominance but we are to believe that Ukrainian casualties are low. It’s a disgusting lie.
To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
The wasteland of rubble in the Ukraine has seriously slowed the Russian advance. The Russians are dropping like flies due to tripping over the ruins in the bombed out cities. /sarc
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