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On December 11, Mr. Igor Kimarkovsky,
advisor to the leadership 

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of the Donetsk region, 

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said that Russia's seizure of control of
the Seversk region north of the Donetsk 

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region has paved the way for Slavyansk, 

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which is described as a major
center of the Ukrainian armed forces. 

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Previously, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry
Peskov reported that 

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President Vladimir Putin 

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has received detailed information about
the Seversk region being completely 

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under the control of the Russian army. 

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Mr. Putin emphasized that the control of
Seversk creates conditions for new 

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attacks and gets closer to Donbass, 

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and affirmed that Ukrainian forces will
be pushed out of this area by Russian troops.