{"id":301344,"date":"2025-12-03T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/what-we-know-about-russias-claim-of-capturing-pokrovsk\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:00:28","slug":"what-we-know-about-russias-claim-of-capturing-pokrovsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/what-we-know-about-russias-claim-of-capturing-pokrovsk\/","title":{"rendered":"What we know about Russia&#8217;s claim of capturing Pokrovsk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/pOsDgP5dOUc\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"What we know about Russia's claim of capturing Pokrovsk\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pOsDgP5dOUc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The Guardian\u2019s defence and security editor, Dan Sabbagh, explains the current situation in Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region.<br \/>\nSubscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>On 1 December the Russian defence ministry published a series of videos that showed Russian soldiers walking around the city centre waving their flags, and claimed they had taken over the entire zone. 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Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 On 1 December the Russian defence ministry published a series of videos that showed Russian soldiers walking around the city centre waving their flags, and claimed they had taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128995],"tags":[130009,145578,129421],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-301344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardian-news","tag-defence","tag-guardians","tag-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What we know about Russia&#039;s claim of capturing Pokrovsk | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch What we know about Russia&#039;s claim of capturing Pokrovsk for free, here on News ISC. 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