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Biletskyi films video in Sviatohirsk to refute Putin’s capture claim
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Third Army Corps commander Andrii Biletskyi recorded a video from the center of Sviatohirsk in Donetsk Oblast to rebut Vladimir Putin's Sept. 1 claim that Russian forces had captured the city, telling Russian officials to 'take off your clown noses.'
The Institute for the Study of War said Putin's claim was unsupported by evidence, noting Russian forces had advanced only to about 13 kilometers from the city at their closest and are likely farther away now amid Ukrainian counteroffensive activity near Lyman.
The Donetsk Regional Military Administration said in early August that Sviatohirsk remained under Ukrainian control despite constant shelling, with local officials continuing to work under difficult security conditions.
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When the head of an army has to make a video just to prove a city hasn't fallen, you learn something about how much weight to put on the other side's press releases. A man standing in a public square beats a claim shouted from a podium in Moscow every time. Believing the ground under your own boots is not a high bar, but apparently it still needs demonstrating.
