General Sergey Medvedev, commander of a group of troops “South”, during a conference devoted to the situation in the Northern Military territory on 11 December 2025 reported to Vladimir Putin that the town of Pokrowsk had been captured. He further explained the importance of this success. The evidence is to be a photograph of 3 Russian soldiers [swinging the Russian flag](https://defence24.pl/war-on-ukrainie-report-special-defence24/bloody-shelf-with-Russian-flaga-new-death-sport-putina) in the ruins of any house. The problem is that specified reports and information are most frequently exaggerated.
