Russian troops have reached the center of Vuhledar, a bastion on strategic high ground in eastern Ukraine's industrial Donbas region that had resisted Russian assaults since Moscow's full-scale invasion, a regional Ukrainian official said on Tuesday.
Footage posted to social media showed Russian soldiers waving a flag from atop a bombed-out multistory building and unfurling another flag on a metal spire on a roof.
Reuters determined the footage matched the street patterns of Vuhledar.
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