Putin first briefed on liberation of Avdeyevka at 4 a.m. on February 17, Kremlin says
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Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Chief of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff Valery Gerasimov apprised to the president that “the operation has been fully completed and our troops have fully taken control of the city”