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A well-known Ukrainian journalist, Yury Butusov, wrote on his Telegram channel the city of Kurakhove had been "effectively lost" to Russian forces. Ukrainian bloggers said servicemen had been subjected to constant fire from multiple rocket launchers and guided, or glide, bombs.
DeepState, a Ukrainian monitoring group that tracks the front line of the war using open sources, showed most of Kurakhove under Russian control at midday on Tuesday.
However, Ukraine has not acknowledged the capture of the town by Russian forces.

Viktor Trehubov, spokesperson for Ukraine's Khortytsia group of forces, told Reuters news agency that, as of Monday morning, Ukrainian forces were still engaging Russian troops inside Kurakhove, is linked to Pokrovsk by roads that are part of the infrastructure to move troops and supplies along the front line, taking of Kurakhove would allow the Russians to go north to attack Pokrovsk from a new direction