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Russia says Ukraine controls 15–17 per cent of Donetsk region

Firefighters work inside a building of a children's hospital, damaged by recent shelling that local Russian-installed authorities called a Ukrainian military strike, while the hospital was under maintenance with no patients inside, in the course of the Russia-Ukraine military conflict in Donetsk, a Russian-controlled city of Ukraine, March 8, 2026.
Firefighters work inside a building of a children's hospital, damaged by recent shelling that local Russian-installed authorities called a Ukrainian military strike, while the hospital was under maintenance with no patients inside, in the course of the Russia-Ukraine military conflict in Donetsk, a Russian-controlled city of Ukraine, March 8, 2026. Photo : REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

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The Russian-installed head of ​Ukraine's Donetsk region, ‌Denis Pushilin, told Russian president Vladimir Putin ​at a ​meeting shown on state ⁠TV on Tuesday ​that Ukraine controls around ​15-17 per cent of the region.

Russia claims the whole of ​the Donetsk region as part ​of Russia and says ‌it ⁠is protected by Russia's nuclear umbrella.

Ukraine says it will ​never recognise ​Russia's ⁠control over part of ​Donetsk and other ​Ukrainian ⁠regions partially or fully held by ⁠Russia.

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